Islamic State executes hundreds of tribesmen in Iraq

The  Islamic State executed 85 more members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Iraq in a mass killing campaign launched last week to break their resistance to the group's territorial advances, a tribal leader and security official said on Saturday, The Times of India informs.

Sheikh Naeem al-Ga'oud, one of the tribe's chiefs, told Reuters that Islamic State had killed 50 members of Albu Nimr who were fleeing the al-Qaida offshoot on Friday. In a separate incident, a security official said 35 bodies were found in a mass grave.

The sustained bloodshed appears to demonstrate Islamic State's resilience to US air strikes against militant targets in parts of Iraq and Syria it controls.