Woman executed for adultery in Kirkuk
[ARA News] Kirkuk – Extremists of the Islamic State (ISIS) on Sunday stoned an Iraqi woman to death on charges of committing adultery, local sources reported.
The ISIS-led Islamic Police, also known as Diwan al-Hisba, detained a woman in al-Riyad District in southwestern Kirkuk Governorate, accusing her of committing adultery.
Shortly after the arrest, the Sharia Court decided to stone the 32-year-old woman to death in public, without any investigation into the case.
“Hundreds of people, including children, gathered at al-Riyad’s central square to witness the execution of the woman,” eyewitnesses told ARA News.
ISIS jihadists also forced a number of civilians to participate in stoning the victim.
The group called on people to take part in the execution, saying that the woman deserved death “for violating the Islamic Sharia through committing adultery”.
The Islamic State’s Media Office in southern Kirkuk has also released footages showing the brutal execution.
The radical group has earlier executed dozens of women on adultery charges.
21 executed while leaving Aleppo
[al-Manar] Syrian authorities said on Monday that Takfiri terrorists executed 21 civilians, including women and children, at close range as they quit second city Aleppo last week.
The bodies were found in two neighborhoods in east Aleppo, official news agency SANA said late Sunday.
The head of Aleppo’s forensic unit Zaher Hajjo told SANA that “21 corpses of civilian victims, including five children and four women, killed by terrorist groups” were examined.
“The bodies were found in prisons run by the terrorist groups in Sukkari and al-Kalasseh, and they were found to have been executed by gunshot at very close range,” Hajjo was quoted as saying.
Under a landmark deal brokered by regime ally Russia and militants’ backer Turkey, 35,000 terrorists and civilians left east Aleppo last week.
Also on Monday, the Russian defense ministry said “dozens of Syrians” were summarily executed in east Aleppo by militants”.
“Mass graves containing dozens of Syrians who were summarily executed and subjected to savage torture have been discovered,” spokesman Igor Konachenkov said, according to Russian agencies.
Mass graves found in Aleppo
[al-Manar] Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday that mass graves of torture victims have been uncovered in Aleppo, adding that the so-called “moderate opposition” mined nearly everything in the eastern neighborhoods of the liberated city.
Mass graves of torture victims have been uncovered in liberated Aleppo, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Monday.
“Mass burial sites of many dozens [of Syrians], who had been subjected to brutal torture and [then] murdered, have been found,” ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.
“In many cases, body parts are missing; most victims had been shot in the head. And this, it seems, is only the beginning.”
Konashenkov said that the instances are being recorded as serious war crimes and will be given maximum publicity “so that European backers of the so-called opposition in London and Paris are well aware of who their wards actually are.”
Konashenkov further revealed that militants of the “moderate opposition” mined in eastern Aleppo nearly everything: toys, streets, entrances to premises, cars and motorcycles. “Literally everything, for which there was enough time and ammunition, was mined: the streets, entrances to premises, vehicles, motorcycles lying on roads, and even children’s toys,” Konashenkov said.
He added that seven large ammunition depots, enough to arm several infantry battalions, were discovered in Aleppo.
On December 22, the Syrian government forces assumed full control of Aleppo as the last convoy with militants left the embattled city. Syrian government forces have been fighting against multiple opposition and terrorist groups, including ISIL and Fatah al Sham, formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra, or Nusra Front.
ISIS executes 30 in al-Bab
[al-Manar] At least 30 civilians have been killed in an attack by ISIL Takfiri group in the northern Syrian town of Al Bab, he Turkish military said in a statement on Monday.
The attack was carried out on Sunday as the civilians’ attempted to flee the ISIL-held town, the Daily Sabah publication cited the Turkish military as saying.
Turkey-bcked militants in Syria and the Turkish army have laid siege to the ISIL-held town for weeks under the “Euphrates Shield” operation launched by Turkey nearly four months ago to sweep the Takfiri insurgents and Kurdish fighters from its Syrian border. 
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