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+22 +1ISIS executes its members who fled Sharqat battle using a bulldozer
Members of ISIS terrorist group fled Sharqt battle were trampled to death by a bulldozer in the city of Mosul, al-Sumaria News reported Monday. The news website reported that ISIS executed seven of its members fled the battles in Sharqat district in northern Iraq by running them down with a giant bulldozer. The victims had their hands and legs chained before they were executed in a public square in the city of Mosul.
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+5 +1British troops condemned over Iraqi boy's death in 2003
Four UK soldiers who "forced" an Iraqi boy into a canal and let him drown have been condemned by a judge investigating civilian deaths in the Iraq War. Ahmed Jabbar Kareem Ali, who was 15, died in Basra in May 2003 after he was detained on suspicion of looting. The British judge's report said Ahmed should never have been detained or made to enter the canal, and should have been rescued when he was "floundering". The Ministry of Defence said it was "extremely sorry".
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+28 +1Iraqi Woman Shoots Dead ISIS Commander That Once Made Her A Sex Slave
A woman, believed to be of the Yazidi-Kurdish minority, shot and killed senior Islamic State commander Abu Anas just outside the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, Iraq. The woman is a part of a group of Iraqi women, who are growing in numbers that are fighting against ISIS, the terrorist organization that abused them for so long. According to sources, the Iraqi woman in question was taken as a sex slave by Anas and then given off to his friends as a “gift.”
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+18 +1UN News - UN rights chief 'deeply dismayed' at execution of 36 people in Iraq
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed deep dismay at the execution of 36 people in Iraq.
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+21 +1Why Iraqis fear victory
The government, economy and social order of Iraq all depend on the business of conflict even more than on falling profits from hydrocarbons. By Peter Harling.
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+34 +1Iraq just hanged 36 men on the same day
Iraq has executed 36 men convicted of taking part in an Isis massacre of hundreds of soldiers in 2014, despite protests from human rights organisations. The men were hanged at the Nasiriyah prison in southern Iraq on Sunday, governor Yahya al-Nasirir said. Isis captured an estimated 1,700 soldiers from the Speicher military base when it overran the northern city of Tikrit in the summer of 2014. The soldiers were trying to flee from the former US base.
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+33 +1The war in Iraq was not a blunder or a mistake. It was a crime
Tony Blair is damned. We have seen establishment whitewashes in the past: from Bloody Sunday to Hillsborough, officialdom has repeatedly conspired to smother truth in the interests of the powerful. But not this time. The Chilcot inquiry was becoming a satirical byword for taking farcically long to execute a task; but Sir John will surely go down in history for delivering the most comprehensively devastating verdict on any modern prime minister.
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Executions in Iraq will not deter further deadly attacks
Iraq’s execution of five prisoners is a brazen knee-jerk reaction to the abhorrent weekend Baghdad bombing and a worrying sign that the country is stepping up its use of the death penalty, Amnesty Int
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+31 +1Isis claims responsibility for Baghdad car bombing that killed 78
Isis claims responsibility for car bombing in shopping district of Iraqi capital that killed 78, as second bomb kills five
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+21 +1US airstrikes kill at least 250 ISIS fighters in convoy outside Fallujah, official says
A series of American airstrikes killed at least 250 ISIS fighters driving in a convoy outside Fallujah on Wednesday, a senior U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News. The strikes occurred on the outskirts of the Iraqi city in "southern Fallujah," a second U.S. defense official told Fox News. "There was a strike on a convoy of ISIS fighters trying to leave a neighborhood on the outskirts of southern Fallujah that we struck," the official said.
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+2 +1Fallujah civilians: 'Militias take turns to torture us'
Men who flee the ISIL-held city are often abused, or killed, by armed groups bent on revenge.
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+10 +1ISIS fighting to the death inside Falluja
A CNN crew witnesses gunfire exchanged between Iraqi forces and the small pockets of ISIS militants still occupying the besieged city of Falluja.
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+25 +1Times Square - but not as you know it
News from Iraq tends to focus on the conflict with the Islamic State group but there is another side to the country which is often forgotten.
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+20 +1UN: Civilians fleeing Fallujah face extreme abuse
UN Human Rights Chief cites 'credible' reports of abuse, including executions of those escaping ISIL-held city.
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+30 +1The battle for Falluja: 'If they lose it, Isis is finished'
Tens of thousands of lives – and the future of Iraq – are at stake as the country’s forces and Shia militias fight Isis for the city
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+27 +1The Law of Revenge: Deadly Hatred among Anti-IS Alliance in Iraq
The US is fighting together with an alliance of rival groups to defeat IS in Iraq. Deadly violence in a city north of Baghdad shows, however, that once the Islamists are defeated, erstwhile allies may turn their weapons on each other. By Christoph Reuter.
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+21 +1The 50,000 Civilians at 'Extreme Risk'
The United Nations says thousands of people remain in Fallujah amid fighting between Iraqi forces and ISIS militants.
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+33 +150,000 Iraqi civilians 'at great risk' in Falluja
The UN says it is very concerned for some 50,000 civilians still in the Iraqi city of Falluja, where the army is battling Islamic State militants.
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+17 +1No safe routes for civilians trapped inside Fallujah
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+26 +1ISIS execute 25 people by lowering them into NITRIC ACID
ISIS has executed 25 people in Mosul, northern Iraq, by lowering them in a vat of nitric acid, according to several local news reports. The men had been accused of spying on ISIS on behalf of Iraqi government security forces. According to witnesses, the 25 alleged 'spies' had been tied together with a rope and lowered in a large basin containing nitric acid until their organs dissolved.
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