Female ISIS leader skips town with cash
"Rio, here I come!"
Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) A senior Islamic State female vigilante has fled the group’s stronghold in western Nineveh with huge sums of money, a local source in the province was quoted saying.
Alsumaria News quoted the source saying that the Islamic State’s leading “biter”, a foreign national, fled Hassan Qoi area, in the town of Tal Afar, to an unknown destination with a large amount of money in her possession.
Um Salma, so she was nicknamed, had been in charge of the female division of the hisba (morality police) service, said the source. She had been behind the fatal biting and strangling of several local women in Mosul, which she did based on sentences issued by the Islamic State’s judges, he added.
She had stolen large sums and fled, and the group launched a wide-scale search for her, according to the source.
Tal Afar, held by IS since 2014, has become the group’s most outstanding haven in Nineveh after militants lost their largest bastion, Mosul, to Iraqi forces earlier this month.
Since it proclaimed a so-called “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria in 2014, Islamic State assigned female vigilantism division that would levy punishments on women violating the group’s extremist codes of modesty. The biters, according to reports, would either literally bite the bodies of violating females ferociously or use iron clippers for the purpose.
ISIS immolates 10 for desertion
Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State executed ten members, including Arab leaders, in west of Mosul, a security source from the army’s Joint Operations Command was quoted saying.
“IS militants burnt the members to death in front of dozens of civilians and group fighters,” Brigadier General Mohamed al-Jabouri told BasNews on Tuesday. “The group informed the people that they were traitors who attempted fleeing.”
The militants included four Syrians and a Saudi national.
“The group burnt the members while being blindfolded and handcuffed,” Jabouri said.
The militants, according to Jabouri, blame their defeat in Mosul on treason and retreat by some leaders and fighters who breached their vows to the group and collaborated with security.
On Monday, news reports mentioned that the group executed one of its prominent doctors in Tal Afar and arrested all of his family members without providing details.
The group reportedly carried out emergency evacuations earlier this week at many of its main headquarters in the town over growing doubts on the people’s cooperation with security services.
A source was quoted earlier this month as saying that non-Iraqi IS militants executed the last local leader in Tal Afar and the town is currently run by Arab and foreign members after eliminating all the Iraqi leaders.
Tal Afar is one of the important strongholds still held by IS in Nineveh since August 2014.
7 ISIS wimmin detained in Samarra
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Seven Islamic State (IS) female elements were arrested on Tuesday northwest of Samarra, Commander of Samarra Operations, Major General Emad al-Zuhairi, announced.
“The intelligence of the Samarra Operations managed today to capture seven IS female elements northwest of Samarra,” a statements said.
“The female elements were coming from Mosul towards Baghdad using fake identifications,” the statement added.
Security forces in Samarra had arrested many elements belonging to the IS terror group while attempting to sneak into southern governorates.
Earlier today, tens of IS militants were killed as Iraqi jets launched several airstrikes in Anbar province.
A statement by the Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell said Iraqi jets launched several airstrikes that left an IS rest house and a weapon stash destroyed.
Furthermore, 21 IS militants were killed on Tuesday in a military operation southwest of Iraq.
Iraqi troops were able to a return life back to normal in the biggest cities of Anbar including Fallujah, Ramadi and others after recapturing them. However, Anbar’s western cities of Annah, Qaim and Rawa are still held by the extremist group since 2014, when it emerged to proclaim a self-styled Islamic Caliphate.
There has not been an officially-declared military campaign to free those regions, but the province’s military command launched a brief assault early January that managed to recapture some western villages before stopping again.