Daesh executes own senior commander in Kirkuk over leaving stronghold

The Takfiri Daesh terrorist group has reportedly executed one of its high-ranking terrorist commanders in Iraq’s northern oil-rich province of Kirkuk on charges of “attempts to escape to the land of non-believers.”

A local source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Arabic-language SNG news agency that the senior terrorist, identified by the nom de guerre Abu Qatada al-Muhajir, was killed on the outskirts of Hawijah city, located 45 kilometers west of the provincial capital city of Kirkuk.

The source added that al-Muhajir was a prominent Daesh member and in charge of recruiting Arab fighters.

He purportedly possessed a great deal of information about Daesh leaders and the terror group’s bombing squads.

Separately, Iraqi security troops have arrested dozens of female Daesh members near Tal Afar more than a fortnight after government forces, backed by allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units, liberated the strategic northern city from the clutches of Daesh extremists.

The media bureau of the Defense Ministry, in a statement released on Friday, announced that members of the Federal Police Force arrested 14 female Daesh terrorists in Qasabet al-Ra’ie village on the outskirts of al-‘Ayadiya district, which lies 11 kilometers northwest of Tal Afar.

The statement added that thirteen of those arrested were Turkish nationals and only one of them came from Russia. There were sixteen children with the Takfiri women.

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