Local tribes said they were forced to withdraw after suffering heavy casualties because they did not have enough weapons to defend the town. The battle did not last more than two hours before the defending forces withdrew.Ī local source in Anbar said IS fighters also seized the town of Brawnah, west of Ramadi, forcing security forces and local tribal forces to withdraw. The source told al-Araby al-Jadeed the attacks were launched on the two towns simultaneously, with light and medium weapons. Meanwhile, further south the IS seized three towns from the government in Salahuddin and Anbar provinces.Īccording to a local source in Salahuddin, the IS seized the towns of Maliha and Sayyed in the west of the province from the Iraqi army and the Popular Mobilisation forces in a lightning attack Monday. IS members first emptied the church of its contents, then piled explosives around it and blew it up.Īccording to Kaweh, the church was over 1,000 years old. The IS also destroyed an ancient Syrian Orthodox church in the middle of Mosul, according to Ismael Kaweh, a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.ġ4 journalists have been killed since the IS seized control of Mosul in June last year. Bullet wounds were evident on her body when it was returned to her family for burial.Īccording to the observatory, 14 journalists have been killed since the IS seized control of Mosul in June last year. Soha Ahmad Radi, a Christian and the editor of the local newspaper Nineveh, was killed a few days after she was taken from her home in the east of Mosul, the Iraqi Journalistic Freedoms Observatory reported.Īn IS-associated so called Sharia court found her 'guilty of spying' for foreign powers, and sentenced her to death. The Islamic State group (IS) has reportedly killed a woman journalist and blown up an ancient Christian church in Mosul
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