(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The ISIS terrorist group on Tuesday executed 15 soldiers from the Iraqi Army in the city of Mosul, in Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh Governorate.
Informed local sources said that the soldiers were taken as prisoners by ISIS during clashes with the Iraqi Army in southwestern Mosul last week.
ISIS militants publicly beheaded the 15 Iraqi soldiers in central Mosul, and paraded their bodies across the city’s streets.
“Hundreds of people witnessed the execution on Tuesday. ISIS promoted the capture and execution of those soldiers as a victory for the so-called Caliphate against the US-backecd forces,” head of Nineveh Media Centre Raafat al-Zarari said.
This comes amid intensifying fighting between Iraqi forces and ISIS in the vicinity of Mosul and in some parts of the city.
On October 17th, 2016, the Iraqi Army launched a major battle for Mosul to liberate the city and its surroundings from ISIS.
The Iraqi forces have recently took control of major towns in Mosul countryside beside recapturing several neighbourhoods in the city–which is deemed the main ISIS bastion in Iraq.
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23 November 2016 - 08:07
News ID: 793699
The ISIS terrorist group on Tuesday executed 15 soldiers from the Iraqi Army in the city of Mosul, in Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh Governorate.
