RAMADI
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has executed at least 13 members of an Iraqi Sunni tribe in Anbar’s Ramadi district, a tribal leader said on Sunday.
Naim al-Keud, one of the leaders of the Iraqi Albu Nimr tribe, told The Anadolu Agency that the public execution of members of his tribe took place in the Hit district of the northern Anbar province.
Keud said ISIL bears a grudge against the tribe, and that the terrorist group had executed hundreds of tribesmen before.
The Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights had reported on Nov. 3 that at least 322 members of the Albu Nimr tribe have been killed by ISIL in northern Iraq.
Anbar police chief Kazim Mohammed al-Fahdawi said a joint force from the army and the police supported by tribesmen, attacked an armed ISIL group in Ramadi’s Havz district, killing at least eight militants and destroying a military vehicle.
The joint forces also seized the dead bodies of eight militants in the al-Sajaria area east of the city, Fahdawi said.
Since mid-June, fighting in Iraq has pitted the Iraqi army and Kurdish peshmerga forces against ISIL militants, who have taken control of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city.
ISIL is currently in control of large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.
The U.S. is leading an international coalition, which includes France, Germany, and Saudi Arabia, which has carried out numerous airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq and Syria.
According to the UN, an estimated 1.8 million citizens have been internally displaced this year throughout Iraq.
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