ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — The Islamic State has conducted a mass execution of former Iraqi soldiers in Mosul, unnamed military sources told Rudaw Saturday.
According to the officials, the corpses of 27 former Iraqi soldiers were sent to a morgue in the city of Mosul. “ISIS had asked the soldiers to join ISIS and fight alongside the jihadis,” the source said, claiming they were killed for not joining the group.
A similar story run by Mosul Eye on Wednesday made a bigger claim: that the bodies of 134 slain police and security officers were delivered to Aljamhouri Hospital. Mosul Eye, the nom de guerre of an “independent historian” reporting anonymously from inside Mosul, said ISIS killed the officials because it suspected they were aiding anti-ISIS forces.
ISIS captured Mosul in June 2014, overwhelming the defense forces, many of whom fled and left their weapons and uniforms behind.
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