ISIS destroys bridges in Anbar
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – The Head of the reconstruction committee in Anbar Provincial Council Arkan Khalaf al-Tarmouz announced that the cost of bridges destroyed by ISIS in the cities of Anbar in the last two years reached 200 billion US dollars.
Tarmouz said, “The number of vital bridges that were destroyed by ISIS in Anbar exceed 84 and their reconstruction cost was around 200 billion US dollars,” adding that, “Majority of these bridges linked the cities of Anbar across the Euphrates river and they were destroyed in the last two years.”
“The destroyed bridges will take almost three years for complete reconstruction if the Iraqi government doesn’t provide the needed financial aid,” Tarmouz added.
Group gathers documentation in ISIS atrocities
(IraqiNews.com) Erbil – KRG’s Ministry of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs have begun documenting crimes committed by ISIS against the Christians, Shabaks, Kakais and Turkmen.
The Head of the ministry’s directorate tasked with documenting and exhuming mass graves and dealing with the victims of war crimes, Baravan Hamdi, said, “The ministry has been collecting evidence for the Yezidis genocide over the last few months.”
“The directorate has now opened up the opportunity for the other victim minorities including Christians, Shabaks, Kakais, and Turkmen to file complaints and testify in a Kurdistan Region court on the atrocities they faced at the hand of the IS militants,” Hamdi added.
ISIS massacred and kidnapped thousands of people from different religious minorities and bulldozed their homes in a systematic attempt to eliminate the communities during their advance into the Iraqi and Kurdistan Region territories back in mid-2014.
ISIS executes one in Raqqa
[ARA News] ZAKHO – Extremists of the Islamic State (ISIS) on Monday beheaded a Syrian man in the northeastern Raqqa city on charges of ‘apostasy’, activists and eyewitnesses reported.
The ISIS-led Hisba police arrested a 51-year-old man in Raqqa. “Hours after his arrest, the Sharia Court issued a statement accusing the man of apostasy,” local media activists Ibrahim al-Raqawi told ARA News.
“The man was beheaded in front of hundreds of people in the al-Maari square on Monday afternoon,” al-Raqawi reported.
According to local sources, ISIS militants have been forcing the people to gather in public squares to witness the punishment of people accused of violating the rules of the group’s self-declared Caliphate.
“Over three years of ISIS control in Raqqa, we have seen dozens of execution cases. Even children are demanded to attend such brutal acts by ISIS,” an eyewitness told ARA News, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“Most of these civilians are being brutally punished on baseless charges. ISIS is just trying to keep people terrified in order to show that it’s still in power in Raqqa,” he said.