ISIS: Execution of an Iraqi Interior Ministry officer days after being kidnapped

Daish last night announced the execution of an Iraqi Interior Ministry officer a few days after his abduction, according to the group’s social media accounts.

ISIS yesterday released a video showing the beheading of passport administrator Yasser al-Jurani after he was kidnapped in Diyala, eastern Iraq, Al-Sumaria channel reported.

Al-Jurani’s death at the hands of Daish comes after ISIS elements kidnapped him and three of his friends when they were on a wild hunting trip two weeks ago at Lake Hamrin in the vicinity of Khanaqin district, Diyala province.

The video showed the Iraqi officer kneeling and a masked man with a weapon behind him, next to the group’s black flag.

According to press reports, citing sources described as security, the officer had already been slaughtered and one of the abductees had been freed but had since died.

ISIS has regularly posted videos documenting its members’ torture and killing of abductees as part of its propaganda machine of sowing panic and horror.

In a related context to the terrorist organization of ISIS, the security media cell announced yesterday the killing of four terrorists in the Hamrin Mountains.

According to a cell statement received by the Iraqi News Agency: “The Diyala Operations Command continues its specific duties for the third day in a row, as it was able, through a force from the 34th Mechanized Brigade of the 9th Division, to kill four terrorists during a search and search operation in the Hamrin Mountains”. He noted that the operation is still ongoing.

The security media cell announced the arrest of six terrorists in Ninawa in a new operation carried out by the Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency at the Ministry of Interior.

The cell said in a statement: “Six individuals wanted under the provisions of the Terrorism Law were arrested in an ambush in the Rabia area in Nineveh while they were entering Iraq from Syria, including one who escaped from the Nineveh Intelligence Directorate prison”.

At the end of 2017, Iraq declared the elimination of ISIS after undermining the capabilities of the terrorist group, which occupied about one third of the country’s territory in 2014.

In recent years, the terrorist organization has sought to reorganize and launch terrorist attacks in an attempt to prove its existence, which was offset by Iraqi military operations to pursue its members.