Iraqi security arrest 4 Islamic State members north of Mosul
The Iraqi Security Media Center said the police command in the town of Tal Keif arrested four memebrs of Daesh (Islamic State) who “confessed to committing crimes against innocent civilians and security members.
The center said the four were wanted for justice based on the Iraqi anti-terrorism law.
No more bodies under the rubble in Mosul’s Old City: Governor
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The Old City in Mosul has been declared to be empty of bodies under the rubble, the governor of Nineveh province said on Friday.
Speaking to Alghad Press, Nofal al-Aakob, the governor, said “the civil defense department as well as others managed to recover all the bodies under the rubble in the Old City. No more bodies are there.”
The civilian recovered bodies, according to Aakob, reached 2654, while 157 bodies of Islamic State members were recovered.
Other sources said on Thursday that more than 600 bodies were recovered within the campaign, launched on Wednesday.
The total number of recovered bodies since end of war in Mosul against Islamic State, that ended more than ten months ago, reached 9,000, according to municipal sources.
The bodies recovered over the past two days are being buried randomly in the Old City, sources told Alghad Press.
As many as 3,298 civilians were killed and 4,781 others were wounded in 2017, excluding Anbar civilian casualty figures for November and December, which are not available, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said in a report in December.