Kurd’s recover strongholds and ISIL executes 700 tribesmen in Syria

 

 

By Jaime Ortega.

 

The day after the  American aviation bombarded key strongholds from ISIL, Kurdish fighters have recovered Sunday Mosul’s Dam, the largest dam in Iraq. The Islamic State had seized this strategic site 10 days ago.

A Kurdish official and two leaders of political parties have assuredthat ‘peshmerga’ (Kurdish fighters) had taken control of the dam that feeds water and electricity to most of the region and is essential to irrigate large areas in the Nineveh province (north).

Kurdish forces, with air support from USA, also on Sunday, recovered Batnaya Christian cities and Telesqof in Nineveh province, in its offensive against jihadists to take control of the dam.

The Air Force also bombed different groups, offices and positions of the radical group Islamic State (EI) Telquif area, said the president of the Security Commission Nineveh Provincial Council, Mohamed Ibrahim al Bayati.

For its part, the United States Central Command said in a statement that American military forces conducted 14 attacks Sunday against ISIL in this area with the aim of recovering the hydraulic system.

Since Saturday, military officials had reported that Kurds Kurdish fighters had managed to capture the east side of the dam. In the early hours of Friday to Saturday, American bombers launched the largest airstrike conducted on position to the Islamic State. During the day, they continued air attacks while ‘peshmerga’ (Kurdish fighters) advanced the field. It was the first attempt to recover this enclave since last August 7.

Mosul Dam holds the main strategic water reserves in Iraq, with a capacity of several million cubic meters and is located 23 kilometers southwest of the city of Dohuk in the Kurdistan region, one of the strategic facilities and most important in Iraq.

It also constitutes a major threat to Iraqi cities, in case of a collapse of the same result, as it is located in sandy soil, so you need a continuous injection of cement.

 

ISIL executes 700 tribe members in Syria

The jihadists of the Islamic State (ISIL) have executed more than 700 people, mostly civilians, in the past two weeks in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al Zur (northeast), said on the Saturday the Syrian Observatory for Rights human (OSDH).

Executions (100 fighters and 600 civilians) took place in the towns of Al Shuaitat, Garanish, Abu Al Hamam and Kishkia, taken by extremists on 11 August, where members of the clan of Al Shuaitat resided. The tribe has tried to rebel against his authority in the east.

Hundreds of members of this tribe are still missing, after being threatened by the IS, which are considered “infidels” who should be killed on mass and “truce, security, money, food, family, and wives” do not deserve, according to the OSDH.

 

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