ISIS beats 3 yutes for playing soccer
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A local source in Nineveh province informed Iraqi News on Tuesday that the ISIS members flogged three young men in central Mosul on charges of playing football.
Sharing details the source said, “ISIS men arrested three young men for playing football, one player wearing a Messi shirt in Martyrs’ Park in downtown Mosul.”
“ISIS militants have lashed every young man with 30 lashes in a public square in front of a crowd of people in central Mosul, as they are playing a game, which is prohibited in Islam,” adding, “ISIS tore the T-shirt which carried Messi ‘s name.”
ISIS executes woman for having sex
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A well placed source on Tuesday informed Iraqi News that ISIS members stoned a woman to death to the east of Mosul for fornication.
Quoting Iraqi media outlets, the source seeking anonymity said, “ISIS members stoned a woman to death in al-Jazaeir, east of Mosul, for fornication,” adding that, “The woman’s body was transferred to the forensic medicine department in Mosul.”
In Islam, it is known that to execute the punishment of fornication limit, terms must be applied, and the lack of a single term thwarts the punishment. However, ISIS is not following the right terms to execute this punishment.
It is may be mentioned that ISIS had previously stoned a number of people in different occasions in the city of Raqqa, its most prominent stronghold in Syria.
ISIS radio station goes dark amid fighting in Mosul
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A local source in Nineveh province informed Iraqi News on Tuesday that ISIS radio broadcast went off air in Mosul amid heavy gunfire heard in some areas of the city.
Sharing details the source said, “ISIS radio went off air in Mosul suddenly, as heavy gunshots were heard in some areas without knowing the reasons”.
“There is a clear state of confusion among ISIS militants deployed in the main streets, prompting many citizens to stay in their houses fearing future developments,” further added the source seeking anonymity.
It is noteworthy to mention that the director of ISIS radio in Mosul, Abu Iman al-Iraqi fled on Monday with his family to an unknown destination. While the outfit pasted his picture on the streets demanding the residents to report about his whereabouts.
ISIS executes 6 yutes in Mosul
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in Mosul informed Iraqi News on Tuesday, that ISIS executed six Nineveh boys by ‘welding’ in central Mosul.
Sharing details the source said, “The terrorist outfit executed six youths in Mosul. ISIS said that the youths belonged to a resistance faction.”
“The youths were first handcuffed and then a welding machine and a welding rod was used to kill them. The execution took place in Mosul in front of a large gathering. ”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “This came in order to create a state of fear and panic among the people.”
Kidz being used to murder prisoners in Mosul
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – ISIS released a new video titled “But If You Return, We Will Return 3,” that showed ISIS militants shooting and beheading captured spies in Wilayat Nineveh, and also involved a lengthy narrative about air strikes.
The 15-minute video that have been recorded recently in Mosul, begins where children are shown watching men in orange jumpsuits locked in steel cages, then the men were beheaded by ISIS militants.
At the end of the video, an ISIS executioner aids a young, blond boy, not older than 10, in executing a suspected spy with a handgun. The boy is suggested to be of European descent.
The blond-haired boy was dressed in combat fatigues, and was handed a large handgun and encouraged to fire it into the back of the head of a prisoner of war, who claimed to be a spy captured in ‘Wilayat Nineveh’.
ISIS executes 12 for desertion in Raqqa
[ARA News] RAQQA – The radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) executed 12 of its own jihadi fighters on charges of fleeing the battlefront in Syria’s northeastern Raqqa province, activists reported on Tuesday.
Raqqa is considered the main bastion for ISIS, and the group has been trying to fortify its headquarters there in face of military operations by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the US-led coalition.
“The Islamic State’s military leadership has publicly beheaded 12 of its own militants for evacuating their posts at the battlefront in eastern Syria without permission,” media activist Abu Ibrahim al-Raqawi told ARA News in Raqqa.
“The militants were executed on Tuesday evening in front of hundreds of people in central Raqqa,” the source reported.
The ISIS-led Sharia Court also supported the execution, describing the militants as “traitors” who refused to “serve the Caliphate”.
The extremist group has earlier executed dozens of its own militants on charges of ‘high treason’ for escaping the battlefield in Syria and Iraq.
3 kidz die in land mine attack in Manbij
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[ARA News] MANBIJ – At least three children lost their lives and several others were seriously injured on Tuesday after a landmine planted by ISIS militants exploded in the recently liberated Syrian border city of Manbij.
“A landmine, that had been planted by ISIS terrorists in the Seif Al-Dawla primary school in Manbij, exploded on Tuesday, causing casualties among the children,” Musa Hamdan, a teacher at the targeted school, told ARA News.
“The explosion killed three children, identified as Imad al-Haddouh, Mustafa Ali al-Huran and Othman Nassan,” local media activist Hassan Ibrahim told ARA News. “Also, 14 others were injured and subsequently transferred to the Manbij Hospital for treatment. Some of them are in critical condition.”
The school was evacuated subsequent to the incident. “The school will remain closed until we make sure that it’s completely cleared of ISIS explosives, in order to maintain the safety of the students and the staff,” Hamdan said.
The city of Manbij was liberated by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in mid-August, after over two years of ISIS occupation.
Unexploded devices pose a daily threat to civilians in the cities and towns liberated for ISIS.
Similar cases were reported in Kobane and Hasakah, where dozens of civilians died in explosion of landmines planted by ISIS extremists before losing those areas to the Kurdish YPG forces and allied SDF troops.
Speaking to ARA News, Abdulrahman Hemo, head of the reconstruction board of Kobane, said that the explosives continue to threaten civilian lives. “Until now, 50 per cent of the civilian death toll in Kobane was caused by explosives in the ground,” he said.
“This explosive pollution will make it impossible for people to reconstruct their lives, and blocks access to several areas. It also prevents humanitarian organizations from operating safely and providing the necessary support to this vulnerable population,” said Frédéric Maio, Handicap International’s Mine Action Program Development Manager in a public statement.
“ISIS militants are experts in the use of mines,” German fighter of YPG Heval Cihan told ARA News, suggesting that ISIS is using traps and decoys, which had killed one of the YPG’s mine experts in Ayn al-Issa town.
“After the liberation of Kobane, most martyrs were not killed by attacks, but by mines,” he said.
ISIS leader deserts in Mosul
Avoided the meet and greet with 12 of his comrades in Raqqa, it would appear
[ARA News] DUHOK – Abu Iman al-Iraqi, a top jihadi leader and spokesman of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh Governorate, has reportedly deserted the group’s ranks on Tuesday.
“Al-Iraqi has escaped with is family. His office and house in Mosul city of Nineveh Governorate were found empty on Tuesday, when the ISIS-led Hisba Police was searching for him after receiving information about his intention to leave,” media activist Abdullah al-Malla told ARA News in Mosul.
The ISIS leadership issued a statement, accusing al-Iraqi of treason and demanding its militants to look for him.
Abu Iman al-Iraqi was the second official spokesman for the Islamic State after Abu Muhammed al-Adnani, who was killed in an airstrike in Aleppo three weeks ago.
Last week, another ISIS official deserted the group’s ranks in northern Iraq. Mahmoud Muhammad Sulaiman, the chief of al-Hisba Police in Mosul and a close friend to the ISIS supreme leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has reportedly escaped Mosul and the group was unable to pursue him.
The ISIS radical group has taken over Mosul city and other parts of Iraq in June of 2014. In late 2015, the group’s power started to decrease under heavy airstrikes by the US-led coalition and ground operations by the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi army. Later on, a number of top jihadi leaders in the group’s ranks were killed, while others defected amid an internal conflict within ISIS over power and money distribution.