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| Ninevah Nightmares: 19+ die |
| 2016-04-18 |
| 17 ISIS troops die in airstrikes (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Media officials with the Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday the killing of 17 ISIS members, including a financial official, during an aerial bombardment in the city of Mosul. The officials said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The F-16 warplanes conducted three air strikes, based on information by the National Intelligence Agency, targeting three headquarters belonging to the ISIS in the district of Tal-Kaif in the city of Mosul,” pointing out that, “The bombardment resulted in the destruction of the three headquarters as well as the death of seventeen terrorists.” The statement added, “The terrorist Ahmed Qasim al-Farahat, the financial official in Tal-Kaif, was among the dead,” indicating that, “[He] was recently transferred from the district of Tal-Afar to Tal-Kaif.” ISIS Top Dawg dies in airstrike (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A local source in Nineveh Province announced on Sunday, that a biological expert in the so-called ISIS was killed in an air strike carried out by the international coalition aviation on a pharmaceutical laboratory north of the province. The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Yesterday the coalition aviation bombed Nineveh pharmaceutical laboratory north of the province, destructing the laboratory completely,” pointing out that, “ISIS was using the laboratory to develop its weapons.” The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added, “The bombardment resulted in the killing of a biological weapons expert and other ISIS members.” ISIS Top Turban dies in airstrike (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Media officials with the Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday the killing of the so-called ISIS Wali of al-Hamadaniyah District in an aerial bombing by the international coalition aviation east of the city of Mosul. The officials said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The international coalition aviation, in coordination with Nineveh Operations Command, carried out an aerial strike that targeted a gathering for ISIS elements in the village of Omar-Kan in Nineveh Plain in the district of al-Hamadaniyah east of Mosul,” adding that, “The aerial bombardment resulted in killing a group of terrorists including the terrorist known as Barzan Hossam, the new Wali of al-Hamadaniyah District.” More from Ara News ISIS executes journalist [ARA News] DUHOK – Militant fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) executed a journalist and a member of the Nineveh police forces in Mosul city in the Iraqi northwestern province of Nineveh, local sources reported Sunday. Speaking to ARA News in Mosul, rights activist Khalid Musilli said: “Subsequent to several months of detention, ISIS militants executed Saturday the Iraqi journalist Ayham Khazaal, who was working as a broadcaster in the local television of Sama al-Mosul.” “Daesh has also brutally executed Nashwan Khazaal, the journalist’s brother, who was serving as a member of the Nineveh police forces in the region,” Musili said, using an acronym for ISIS. Both brothers were accused of spying for the US-led coalition and Iraqi security forces, according to the same source. “The victims were shot dead in front of a crowd of people in western Mosul,” an eyewitness told ARA News, speaking on condition of anonymity. The source confirmed that both victims were arrested together in the northern city of Mosul several months ago and tragically killed in public in front of dozens of people. The execution was carried out at Qasim al-Khayat Square west of the city, and some residents handed over corpses of the two brothers to the forensic medicine. “A member of the ISIS-led Sharia Court, who recited the death sentence in public, threatened to hunt what he called ‘all spies’ of the US-led coalition in the region, including journalists and aid volunteers,” he reported. Journalists and media activists are main targets for ISIS jihadis, who view reporters as spies for the western powers, leaking security information about the militants’ positions in the region. In July 2015, the extremist group executed more than 25 Iraqi journalists in Nineveh province. In August 2015, ISIS militants executed the journalist Sabah Muhammad and photographer Walid Abdullah, who worked for al-Musiliyah channel in Mosul, on charges of violating the group’s regulations. |
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