The sources told AFP on Tuesday that one of the men was accused of being involved in a car bombing in the city in summer 2013, and another was guilty of taking part in a similar attack in Karbala province.
ISIS controlled swathes of Iraqi territory in 2014 but the group was territorially defeated three years later. Iraqi security forces have made a large number of arrests since then, executing some.
According to Amnesty International, 100 people were executed in 2019 but the number dropped to 45 in 2020.
Iraq executed six people, including three for terror charges, in late August, and executed three others in late January.
Raz Salayi, researcher at Amnesty, told Rudaw English on Tuesday that executions do not bring justice to those who suffered from ISIS atrocity.
“Iraq’s continuous use of the death penalty despite serious failings in its fair trial proceedings - including the wide use of torture to get “confessions” - is one of the largest obstacles in moving past the legacy of the recent conflict. Executions bring no tangible justice to the victims of IS crimes,” she said.
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