[AA.TR] A total of 4,500 civilians have fled northern Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
over the past three days as government forces launched the second phase of battles to retake the city form ISIS terrorists, an Iraqi aid official said Sunday.
Iyad Rafid of Iraqi Red Islamic Thingy told Anadolu Agency that civilians who fled from south and east of Mosul were settled in camps by the Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration along with local and international aid agencies.
"1,500 civilians were placed in Hazir refugee camp while another 3,000 were settled in al-Jad'ah camp [outskirts of Mosul]," he noted.
80 families flee western Anbar
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Eighty families fled the areas held by the Islamic State group in Qaim District toward the liberated areas, a member of Anbar Provincial Council revealed on Sunday.
Ezzal al-Fahdawi, member of Anbar Provincial Council, said in a press statement, “Iraqi security forces received 80 families who fled the areas held by the Islamic State in Qaim District, west of Anbar.”
“The families are mostly women and children, and they were transferred to a displaced camp in Khalidiyah District, in eastern Ramadi,” Fahdawi explained.
“The majority of families who fled Qaim paid 700 USD per person to the Islamic state’s members to allow them flee the district,” Fahdawi further added.
Fahdawi also declared that the coming days will be the hardest due to the displacement of hundreds of families from the western areas, which will need extra aids for the displaced families.
ISIS executes 12 for possession of satellite devices
[ARA News] Raqqa – Islamic State (ISIS) militants ransacked civilian houses on Sunday, in Syria’s northeastern Raqqa Governorate. Local sources reported that ISIS-controlled al-Hisba police confiscated dozens of satellite receivers and arrested the owners.
ISIS extremists executed at least 12 people in Raqqa for possessing satellite devices, activists told ARA News.
ISIS claimed that the confiscations and executions were part of a broader campaign against “corrupt television.”
“The jihadist group beheaded 12 men in the Meshallab neighbourhood in central Raqqa for using satellite receivers,” media activist Khalid al-Omari told ARA News.
“The victims were brutally executed in public on charges of violating the Caliphate’s rules,” the source said.
ISIS militants destroyed the collected devices, and threatened to mercilessly punish anyone in possession of satellite receivers.