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Members of the Takfiri ISIS group in Iraq executed 10 doctors in Mosul on Wednesday as part of their continued terrorism against Christians and other religious and political groups throughout the Middle East.
The doctors were executed in the Hammam al-Alil area south of Mosul after refusing to treat wounded ISIS members, Iraq's al-Sumaria satellite TV network first reported. The doctors reportedly refused to do so because they did not support ISIS' activities...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – An armed anti-ISIS group operating in the extremist-held city of Mosul has claimed the assassination of the military attache of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State.
“A special force of the Free Officers Movement gunned down Wisan Kanan, Baghdadi’s military assistant, in the Mosul’s neighborhood of  Al  Faisaliah,” Mohammad Bahaj, a member of the Free Officers Movement, told the Al-hadath news on Thursday. ...http...

A former physics teacher who rose rapidly through the ranks of Isis has been named by an Iraqi Government adviser as the man now leading the militant terror group following reports that its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was injured in an airstrike.
Dr Hisham al Hashimi, an Iraqi government adviser, told Newsweek that Abu Alaa Afri, “the self-proclaimed caliph’s deputy”, has been made the temporary leader of Isis while Baghdadi recovers....

.... The video also revealed that the Islamic State appears to have adapted to American airstrikes. Most of the images of artillery, rocket launchers and even heavy anti-aircraft guns mounted on the beds of trucks include a level of camouflage designed...