Terrorists from Islamic State (ISIL or Daesh) radical group executed 52 people by burning them, with the other four having been shot dead in Hawija city in the northern Iraqi Kirkuk province, local media reported on Sunday.
According to the Al Arabiya broadcaster, citing its sources, the victims, primary young men, were executed on Saturday night for encouraging residents of Hawija to escape from the city seized by militants.
Kirkuk province has been at the epicenter of fierce clashes between militants from Daesh, outlawed in Russia and various countries, and joint Iraqi forces since the jihadist group captured vast parts of Iraq in 2014.
According to the UN Refugee Agency, Daesh militants seized some 3,000 people, trying to escape from Hawija, on August 3.
[sputniknews.com]
7/8/16
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Kirkuk province has been at the epicenter of fierce clashes between militants from Daesh, outlawed in Russia and various countries, and joint Iraqi forces since the jihadist group captured vast parts of Iraq in 2014.
According to the UN Refugee Agency, Daesh militants seized some 3,000 people, trying to escape from Hawija, on August 3.
[sputniknews.com]
7/8/16
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An Iraqi Kurdish reporter was killed and another wounded on Sunday during a military operation against the Islamic State group in northern Iraq, officials said...
ReplyDeleteThe incident occurred during an operation launched by the Kurdish peshmerga forces near Mosul, the country's second city and the jihadist organisation's de facto capital in Iraq.
The journalists, working together for Kurdistan TV, were following peshmerga forces involved in the assault which began early Sunday.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party, which owns the channel, announced the death in a statement.
"We deplore the loss... of cameraman Mustafa Said from the Kurdistan TV satellite channel and the injury of correspondent Hayman Nanqli," the KDP media office said in a statement.
It said the incident was caused by a mortar round fired into a village recently retaken by the peshmerga from IS.
Iraq's Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, a press freedom NGO, confirmed the cameraman's death......AFP
14/8/16