ISIL militants kidnap 30 tribesmen in western Iraq
Members of ISIL Takfiri terrorist group have abducted tens of tribesmen in Iraq’s strife-stricken western province of al-Anbar.
Chairman of al-Baghdadi city council, Malallah al-Obeidi, said the Takfiri militants kidnapped 30 members of al-Ubaid tribe after they overran the village of al-Mashhad on the outskirts of the city of Khan al-Baghdadi, situated about 180 kilometers (110 miles) northwest of the capital, Baghdad, Iraq’s al-Sumaria satellite TV network reported.
He added that the fate and whereabouts of the abductees are unknown.
The development came only two days after ISIL militants abducted 29 members of the same tribe from an area north of the city of Tikrit, located 140 kilometers (86 miles) northwest of Baghdad, at gunpoint, and took them to an unknown location.
The ISIL started its campaign of terror in Iraq in early June 2014. The heavily-armed militants took control of Mosul before sweeping through parts of the country’s Sunni Arab heartland.
The terrorists have been carrying out horrific acts of violence, including public decapitations, against all Iraqi communities such as Shias, Sunnis, Kurds and Christians.
Iraqi soldiers, police units, Kurdish forces, Shia volunteers and Sunni tribesmen have succeeded in driving the ISIL terrorists out of some areas in Iraq.
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