Islamic State militants kill at least 50 from Iraqi Anbar tribe

Islamic State militants kill at least 50 from Iraqi Anbar tribe
November 1, 2014 - 17:58 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Islamic State militants have killed at least 50 members of a western Iraqi tribe in Anbar province, officials and tribal leaders say, according to BBc News.

The deaths are thought to be in retaliation for the Al Bu Nimr tribe's resistance to the jihadists.

The news comes after mass graves were found containing between 80 and 220 bodies, many from the same tribe.

IS militants have killed hundreds of people in the large areas of Iraq and neighbouring Syria they control.

Meanwhile AFP news agency quoted the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as saying that at least 100 IS fighters had been killed in three days of fighting for the strategic Syrian border town of Kobani.

On Friday, Oct 31 some 150 Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters crossed from Turkey to join Syrian Kurds who have been defending the town against IS for six weeks.

The observatory says more than 950 people have died in the battle, more than half of them from IS.

Photo: AFP
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