Skip to Navigation | Skip to Content | Leap to Bottom

Islamic State 'executes 70 Sunni tribesmen in Iraq' - BBC News

6.10.15

Islamic State 'executes 70 Sunni tribesmen in Iraq' - BBC News: In 2014, IS militants killed more than 500 members of the tribe, but its leaders vowed to fight on.

The tribe, which is believed to include more than half a million people, confronted IS after it seized control of swathes of western and northern Iraq that June.

Members of the tribe also helped the US military counter al-Qaeda in Iraq, a precursor to IS, during the so-called "Sunni Awakening" in 2006 and 2007.


Read the full article … 

Dispatch: Aboriginal Press Media Group  |   Permalink  |   [6.10.15]  |   0 comments

130445941494107952

»  {Newer-Posts} {Older-Posts}  «

0 Comments:

Post a Comment



 / 6.10.15 / 2015/10/#130445941494107952




Aboriginal News Group

Contributing Editors, International Correspondents & Affiliates




This is an Ad-Free Newswire


#ReportHate
============
Southern Poverty Law Center


This site uses the Blogspot Platform



Impressum

Inteligenta Indigena Novajoservo™ (IIN) is maintained by the Aboriginal Press News Service™ (APNS) a subset of the Aboriginal News Group™ (ANG). All material provided here is for informational purposes only, including all original editorials, news items and related post images, is published under a CC: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 license (unless otherwise stated) and/or 'Fair Use', via section 107 of the US Copyright Law). This publication is autonomous; stateless and non-partisan. We refuse to accept paid advertising, swag, or monetary donations and assume no liability for the content and/or hyperlinked data of any other referenced website. The APNS-ANG and its affiliate orgs do not advocate, encourage or condone any type/form of illegal and/or violent behaviour.