ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — A local tribal leader said Monday that the Islamic State had executed 70 tribesmen in the Anbar provincial capital city of Ramadi, and he urged Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to save the people of Anbar from ISIS and ramp up efforts to reclaim the province.
“Sunday evening, the ISIS organization kidnapped 70 men of the Albu Nimr tribe in the area of Sarsar in northern Ramadi. After a while, they were assassinated,” Na’im Ga’ud, an Albu Nimr leader, told Rudaw Monday.
“The majority of those assassinated by ISIS were civilians whose fathers and brothers were fighting alongside the Iraqi army and other related forces against ISIS in the township of Barwana in the west of Ramadi,” he added.
Ga’ud also urged Abadi to “save the people of Anbar province from ISIS atrocities and liberate war-torn areas as soon as possible.”
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