ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A court in Erbil sentenced seven members of Islamic State (ISIS) to death and sentenced five others to life in prison for their role in the car bomb attack against the Erbil Governorate building in November 2014, the Kurdistan Security Council announced on Wednesday. “The criminals were directly involved in planning and carrying out the attack and were members of Daesh (ISIS) and also carried out several other attacks in the city of Kirkuk,” the statement said. The car bomb attack carried out at noon on November 19th 2014 killed four people and wounded at least 29 others. Bomb attacks in the Kurdish capital of Erbil are rare, but occur almost on a daily basis in Baghdad, primarily in Shiite-majority areas, such as Sadr City.
