ISIS Kills 85 More Members of Iraqi Tribe
4 Nov 2014 4:01 AM IST
ISIS executed 85 more members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Iraq in a mass killing campaign launched last week to break their resistance to the group’s territorial advances, a tribal leader and security official said on Saturday. Sheikh Naeem al-Ga’oud, one of the tribe’s chiefs, said that ISIS had killed 50 members of Albu Nimr who were fleeing the al Qaeda offshoot on Friday. In a separate incident, a security official said 35 bodies were found in a mass grave. The sustained bloodshed appears to demonstrate ISIS’ resilience to U.S. airstrikes against militant targets in parts of Iraq and Syria it controls.
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