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| Iraq |
| ISIS kills 25 Iraqi tribesmen near Ramadi |
| 2014-11-23 |
| ISIS militants have killed 25 members of a Sunni tribe during their assault on a provincial capital west of Baghdad, local officials said on Saturday. They said the bodies of the men from the Albu Fahd tribe were discovered after the army launched a counter-offensive on Saturday against the ISIS in a village on the eastern edge of Ramadi, capital of Anbar province. The killings echoed the execution of hundreds of members of the Albu Nimr tribe last month by ISIS fighters trying to break local resistance to their advances in Anbar, a Sunni province they have largely controlled for nearly a year. "While they were combing the territories they are liberating, security forces found 25 corpses in the Shujariya area," Hathal Al Fahdawi, a member of the Anbar Provincial Council, said. Albu Fahd tribal leader Sheikh Rafie Al Fahdawi said at least 25 bodies had been found and said he expected the total to be significantly higher. He said the bodies were found scattered around with no signs of weapons next to them, suggesting they were not killed during fighting. ISIS, which has seized control of large parts of Syria and Iraq, continues to gain territory in Anbar despite three months of |
| Posted by:Steve White |