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ISIS executes dozens of Sahawat fighters and Iraqi soldiers

October 31, 2014 at 5:53 pm

Islamic State (ISIS) fighters executed 75 members of the Sahwat (Awakening) Forces and the Iraqi army in Hit in west Anbar in the city’s square, eye witnesses reported.

The Anadolu Agency quoted Anbar’s operations chief Rashid Falih saying that ISIS executed about 250 individuals from the Abu Nimer tribe over the span of 24 hours, after being kidnapped from the area of Al-Zawiyya on the outskirts of Hit.

Falih also added that the people who were executed were distributed into the two areas of Al-Bikr and Abu Assaf and were between the ages of 18 and 60, most of whom are civilians. He attributed the reason for this to the fact that the tribe supported the government forces in the war against ISIS by denying the organisation entry to the city of Hit about a month ago.

Meanwhile, a force consisting of the army and police, greatly supported by a large number of tribal fighters and accompanied by the army’s air force, has begun a large-scale military operation to lift the siege imposed on dozens of families encircled by ISIS fighters in the desert area between the city of Hit and the city of Haditha, after being displaced by ISIS from Al-Zawiyya.

Anadolu quoted the commander of the Emergency Regiment in Anbar province, Colonel Shaaban Barzan Al-Baghdadi Al-Obeidi, as saying that ISIS members “surrounded these families in the dessert for about 24 hours and denied them access to the city of Haditha.”

He noted that the families had left their areas with no food or drink, which led to the death of many children as well as miscarriages amongst some pregnant women, while others gave birth prematurely.