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.
Islamic State executes hundreds of tribesmen in Iraq
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