![]() ![]() ![]() As Shabaab lost ground and defectors increased, internal killings and harsher punishments were meted out across the terror group further accelerating the loss of local popular support.”Įarlier this year, activist group Mosul Eye reported that ISIS committed mass executions of men and children at Alhud Village just south of Mosul, accusing the entire township of apostasy and affiliation to the local Iraqi police forces. “ISIS pattern of internal killings looks remarkably similar to al Shabaab’s decline in Somalia. “They continue to lose territory, we’ve seen a growing number of defections and a rise in the number of alleged internal spies – many of whom they have killed mercilessly without demonstrating significant evidence of internal espionage,” he explained. Getty ImagesĬlint Watts, Fox fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, agreed. “They are using women and children executions to intimidate – the harsher the tactic the more desperate the leadership is.” Members of the Iraqi government forces clear buildings east of Ramadi. “ISIS is fracturing, paranoid from within,” Pregent continued, noting that ISIS has two intelligence directorates – one for internal threats the other for external ones – and both are focused on unearthing “threats” to their existence within areas under their thumb. The terrorist group is feeling the heat of a coming onslaught, said Pregent. “If the mom cries and gets upset at them, they accuse of her being a spy too and take her to the jail and later kill her.” ![]() “They come to the house and take the children and accuse them of being spies,” said a stateside Iraqi with knowledge of the situation. With government, Kurdish and coalition forces now mustering to recapture Mosul, which fell to ISIS approximately 18 months ago, an increasingly paranoid ISIS has stepped up its murders of women and children, according to people trapped in the city. Booby-traps, landmines and a broken infrastructure have rendered it mostly uninhabitable for the time being. Iraqi forces, fighting with Sunni tribes and supported by coalition forces, recently took it back but the city remains in ruins. ![]() Just 80 miles west of Baghdad, the city was overrun by ISIS in June, 2014. The retaking of Ramadi, the capital of the mainly Sunni-populated Anbar Province which ISIS took over last May, was a major setback for ISIS. “They did the same to fighters after Tikrit.” “There is no surprise on executing ISIS fighters from Ramadi,” he said. A similar fate was meted out to fighters who lost Saddam’s hometown to Kurdish forces last year. David Petraeus in Iraq, said such an act isn’t new for the callous terror group. Michael Pregent, a terrorism expert and former intelligence adviser to Gen. Several Iraqi-Americans and recent refugees with close relatives in Mosul told of ISIS fighters fresh off defeat in Ramadi being shunned – and executed – for not fighting to the death in Ramadi. “They were grouped together and made to stand in a circle,” a former resident of northern Iraq now living in the US but in touch with family back home told. Several residents of Mosul recounted the grisly story for stateside relatives, describing the deadly reception black clad jihadists got when they made it to Mosul, some 250 miles north of the city retaken by Iraqi forces operating with cover from US air power. ISIS fighters who fled to the terror group’s Iraqi stronghold of Mosul after being defeated in Ramadi were burned alive in the town square, sources told, in an unmistakable message to fighters who may soon be defending the northern city from government forces. Inside a man's incredible journey to save 7 grandkids orphaned by ISIS-following parentsĪir Force watchdog finds no wrongdoing in deadly Afghan drone strike ISIS fighter who murdered Yazidi girl, 5, is jailed for genocideĬanadian school cancels ISIS survivor event over fears of 'Islamophobia' ![]()
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