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    Fresh fighting in Iraq; ISIS claims mass execution in Syria

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    Fresh fighting in Iraq; ISIS claims mass execution in Syria Empty Fresh fighting in Iraq; ISIS claims mass execution in Syria

    Post by Rocky Thu 28 Aug 2014, 9:44 am

    Fresh fighting in Iraq; ISIS claims mass execution in Syria




    STORY HIGHLIGHTS
    NEW: ISIS claims to have executed 250 Syrian soldiers
    Militants set fire to oil wells amid continued fighting near Mosul Dam and a strategic town
    About 50 militants and one Peshmerga fighter are dead, a Kurdish official says
    The U.S. is considering airstrikes to aid Turkmen besieged by ISIS



    (CNN) -- ISIS said Thursday that it has executed at least 250 Syrian soldiers at an air base in the northeastern city of Raqqa.

    The group said on one of its official websites that it killed the soldiers Wednesday. It also claimed to have killed some 600 government soldiers in the fight for the al Tabqa air base since August 19.

    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, meanwhile, reported that 200 Syrian soldiers and 346 ISIS fighters died in the fight for the air base. Hundreds more were wounded, the London-based activist group said.

    CNN could not independently confirm the claims.

    The news comes amid reports of fresh fighting near the Mosul Dam and the burning of oil wells near the strategic town of Zummar, Iraq -- important because of its location near a main road connecting Mosul to the Syrian border.


    The Peshmerga are battling the militants near the town of Zummar, the Mosul Dam and the strategic Ayn Zala oilfields, which ISIS forces seized from the Kurds this month, said Faud Hussein, chief of staff for Kurdish regional President Masoud Barzani.

    Torching the oil wells is an apparent effort by ISIS fighters to cover their tracks as Peshmerga forces press toward ISIS positions, Hussein said.

    The extent of the damage to the oil fields wasn't immediately known.

    At least 50 ISIS militants were killed in fighting near the Mosul Dam on Thursday, said Hemin Hawrami, head of the Foreign Relations Office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. Kurdish forces also destroyed several ISIS vehicles, he said.

    One Peshmerga fighter died and five were wounded in the fighting, Hawrami said.

    The fighting comes nearly two weeks after thousands of Peshmerga and Iraqi commandos ousted ISIS forces for control of the dam, a crucial facility that provides electricity for millions of people in Iraq.

    Kurdish officials have credited U.S. airstrikes against ISIS -- which calls itself the "Islamic State" -- with helping Peshmerga forces push back against ISIS forces, whose breathtaking gains and brutal tactics captured the attention of world leaders.

    Meanwhile, U.S. President Barack Obama is considering airstrikes and humanitarian airdrops to help save thousands of Iraq's Shiite Turkmen, who officials said face potential slaughter by ISIS.

    ISIS fighters have besieged the town of Amerli, about 140 miles (225 kilometers) southeast of Mosul, since the Sunni extremists swept into Iraq from Syria in mid-June. The town's fewer than 20,000 residents -- half of them women and children, according to the United Nations -- are without power.

    "Residents are enduring harsh living conditions with severe food and water shortages, and a complete absence of medical services -- and there are fears of a possible imminent massacre," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said this week.

    Their situation echoes the ordeal of Iraq's ethnic Yazidis, whose plight after they were forced to flee into the mountains to escape ISIS militants triggered U.S. aid drops and the first U.S. airstrikes against ISIS.

    Similar to the chaotic scenes that played out in the Sinjar Mountains, Iraqi military helicopters have been carrying out food drops and picking up Turkmen desperate to get out.

    Which groups are at risk in Iraq?

    Scant defenses

    Surrounded on four sides, the 17,400 residents have had to defend themselves with only the help of local police, Masrwr Aswad of Iraq's Human Rights Commission has said.

    ISIS has vowed to push the Shiite Turkmen out, calling them heretics.

    Turkmen are descendants of Turkic-speaking, traditionally nomadic people who share cultural ties with Turkey. There are Sunni and Shiite Turkmen in Iraq, and they account for up to 3% of Iraq's population.

    U.N. report alleges atrocities

    On Wednesday, U.N. human rights investigators accused ISIS and Syrian government forces of committing war crimes and atrocities in their brutal fight in Syria.

    The U.N. report said public executions, torture and mock crucifixions have become regular fixtures in ISIS-controlled areas of Syria. It also said that the extremist group is forcing children to fight.

    "Among the most disturbing findings in this report are accounts of large training camps, where children, mostly boys, from the age of 14 are recruited and trained to fight in the ranks of ISIS along with adults," said Paulo Pinheiro, the chairman of the U.N. commission of inquiry on Syria.

    The report also accuses the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of repeatedly using chemical weapons against civilians.

    The U.N. investigators said the Syrian government dropped what was thought to be chlorine gas on civilian areas on eight different occasions in April.

    The government forces are believed to have made particular use of barrel bombs dropped by helicopters to unleash the gas, said Vitit Muntarbhorn, a commissioner with the inquiry.

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