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IS top vigilante killed in western Mosul, civilians homes burned in east

 IS top vigilante killed in western Mosul, civilians homes burned in east

A dead ISIS leader. A Photo

A dead ISIS leader. A Photo
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) A senior Islamic State vigilante died in the western Mosul town of Tal Afar on Sunday, having succumbed to injuries sustained in an airstrike carried out four days earlier, according to a local source.

“Daesh (Islamic State) lost three of its senior leaders during the current month in Tal Afar due to successful airstrikes,” the source told Alsumaria News, requesting anonymity.

IS has relied on religious vigilantes to observe civilians’ commitment to its extreme religious rules, occasionally imposing harsh punishments, reportedly amounting to death, on violators.

In eastern Mosul, another local source said the extremist group set fire to five houses in the districts of Mohandessin and Andalus after their residents declined to pay donations to the group’s combatants.

Iraqi government forces, assisted by US-led international forces, advisers and trainers, along with popular militias, have been carrying out a wide-scale campaign since October to retake Mosul, IS’s last urban stronghold in Iraq which fell in the group’s hands in 2014.

Iraqi military and police commanders have said recently they became in control over 90 percent of the eastern region of Mosul, and hope to move onwards to the west, where IS still maintains outstanding strongholds, including Tal Afar.

The situation in Mosul has forced 173.000 people to flee homes to refugee camps, and the United Nations had voiced fears, upon the launch of security operations, that battles could displace one million civilians.

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