ISIS executes 3 in Kirkuk
Kirkuk/Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) Islamic State militants executed three young men in Kirkuk and arrested five others in Mosul on Wednesday, civilian and police sources have said.
Iraqi police sources were quoted as saying that the extremist group executed three young men in al-Abbasi area, hawija, west of Kirkuk, accusing them of collaboration with security authorities, a charge based on which the group sentenced dozens of Iraqis to death since it took over several cities in the country in 2014.
The trio was executed by a firing squad, the source added.
Several areas in western Kirkuk are still in IS hold, and the situation there has forced thousands to flee their homes to refugee camps.
In Mosul, the group’s militants detained five men for possessing some of the “consolation letters” air-dropped by Iraqi forces on the city. The source revealed that IS had prohibited the possession of the letters which Iraqi forces used to drop from aircraft to morally support civilians stranded in the city and to assure of near victory over IS.
IS has been infamous for executing civilians who disobey its restrictions, and has been accused by aid and rights groups of targeting civilians attempting to flee the city which the group had previously designated as the capital of its self-styled “Islamic Caliphate”.
Difficult living conditions and the life threats under IS have prompted nearly 137.000 to leave Mosul since the start of military operations to retake the city last October.
ISIS executes Palestinian grrl in Damascus
[ARA News] Damascus – Extremists of the Islamic State (ISIS) on Wednesday executed a Palestinian girl after accusing her of supporting the Syrian regime.
Hadil Yassin Abu al-Madi, a Palestinian resident of al-Yarmouk district in Damascus, was arrested by the ISIS-led Hisba Police on suspicions of cooperating with the Syrian regime’s secret service, also known as Mukhabarat.
The Sharia Court in Yarmouk convicted Hadil on charges of spying and ordered her immediate execution on Wednesday.
“ISIS militants publicly executed Hadil in al-Yarmouk. Dozens of people witnessed the brutal execution,” local media activist Wissam Doghmoush told ARA News.
ISIS has been in control of a residential block in southern Damascus since April 2015, when it drove out al-Qaeda-splinter group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and allied rebel factions. Al-Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood is believed to be the Islamic State’s primary staging area. Their militants also control most of the nearby Yarmouk and Tadamun Districts.
In October, the Islamic State threatened to invade Damascus and apply its puritanical interpretation of Sharia law throughout the capital. ISIS said that their invasion was imminent and vowed to strike at Syrian security forces and the armed opposition.