ISIS executes oil workers in Mosul

ISIS fighters have executed ten oil workers in the city of Mosul, a Kurdish information official reported on Monday. According to Said Momzini, the ten men were killed because they ‘smuggled oil’.

A report by Anadolu claimed that ISIS captured 25 oil workers in the Iraqi city and executed ten after a quarrel erupted over the division of revenue from oil sales. Another 18 people were killed by ISIS in Mosul on Sunday, again because it was alleged that they had smuggled oil.

Mumzini added that ISIS also killed journalist Tha’er Ali, who was working for the Public Opinion newspaper. Nasruddin Ali al-Kurd, the local amir of ISIS, was, he pointed, killed by volunteer fighters in Mosul.

ISIS took control of the Iraqi city of Mosul in June last year. The militant group then expanded its control over wide areas in the north and east of the country. Thousands of Iraqis have had to leave their homes as a result.

Iraqi government forces, along with militias loyal to Baghdad and Kurdish troops have been fighting to regain the areas under ISIS control. They are being supported by a US-led international alliance which is bombing ISIS targets in Syria and Iraq.