Daesh executes own members in Iraq over refusing bomb attacks

Jabbar al-Mamouri told Arabic-language al-Sumaria television network on Monday that Daesh militants had recently killed a number of their comrades in Mutabijiya districts after the latter fiercely resisted to take the order.
 
Mamouri added that Daesh has recently been punishing its members for disobeying orders to launch bombings.
 
Eight Daesh members killed as Iraqi troops repel attack on border area with Syria
 
Meanwhile, Hashd al-Sha'abi fighters have repelled a Daesh militant attack on a border area between Iraq and Syria.
 
An unnamed military source said Daesh extremists launched an attack on Tall Safuk area, which volunteer forces successfully thwarted and killed eight assailants in the process.
 
The source added that two armored vehicles belonging to Daesh Takfiris were also destroyed in the counter-attack, which lasted for several hours.
 
 On December 9 last month, Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared the end of military operations against the Daesh terrorist group in the Arab country.
 
“Our forces are in complete control of the Iraqi-Syrian border and I therefore announce the end of the war against Daesh,” Abadi told a conference in Baghdad.
 
Abadi visited the town of Qa'im and the nearby Husaybah border crossing in far western Iraq on November 5, and raised the Iraqi flag at the border crossing.
 
On October 5, Abadi said Iraqi armed forces had liberated Hawijah, driving Daesh Takfiris out of their last bastion in the oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk.
 
The Iraqi prime minister said on August 31 that the northwestern city of Tal Afar, located 200 kilometers northwest of Kirkuk, and the entire Nineveh province had been purged of Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.
 
The recapture of Tal Afar was made possible with the help of the Iraqi army, Federal Police, Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) units, Hashd al-Sha’abi fighters and the Interior Ministry's elite rapid response forces, the Iraqi prime minister stated then.
 
On July 10, Abadi formally declared victory over Daesh extremists in Mosul, which served as the terrorists’ main urban stronghold in the conflict-ridden Arab country.
 
In the run-up to Mosul's liberation, Iraqi army soldiers and volunteer Hashd al-Sha’abi fighters had made sweeping gains against Daesh.
 
The Iraqi forces took control of eastern Mosul in January after 100 days of fighting, and launched the battle in the west on February 19.
 
Daesh began a terror campaign in Iraq in 2014, overrunning vast swathes in lightning attacks.