Iraqi Forces Are Progressing In Mosul, The UN Condemns The Use Of Chemical Weapons By The IU

While the Iraqi army in Mosul progresses, the High Commissioner for Human Rights revealed Friday that Iraqi forces had discovered sulfur stocks, established by the Islamic State group in populated areas.

Although Iraqi forces entered neighborhoods of the city , hell continues to Mosul for the local population. The UN said on Friday November 11, that 60 civilians were executed this week by the organization Islamic State (EI) . Forty people were put to death for "treason", twenty other because they were accused of passing information to Iraqi forces.

The victims - whose bodies were hung from electricity poles in Mosul - were dressed in an orange outfit, with red markings: "traitors and agents of the ISF" [acronym in English for Iraqi security forces, Ed], according the High Commissioner for Human rights (OHCHR).

A resident of Mosul, Abu Saif, contacted by AFP, said he saw 30 to 40 bodies, with the "agent" and "traitor" inscriptions. The EI "brings people into the streets of Mosul and performs in public, some dead, some by beheading," he reported.

Tuesday night, a man of 27 years would have been shot dead in the district of Bab al-Jideed in central Mosul, for using a mobile phone, a use prohibited by the EI, according to the UN.




sulfur storage

OHCHR also revealed Friday that Iraqi forces had discovered sulfur stocks made by EI in populated areas. According Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the organization, credible reports have shown that EI has used "phosphorous projectiles" in the village of Qayyara near Mosul.

"Similar reports indicate sulfur storage wells nearby residents," she assured.

While the UN continues to publish these days details of horrors - torture, sexual exploitation, child recruitment, murder - committed by EI in Iraq, the High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein asked Friday that the international criminal Court (ICC) is entered.

Iraqi forces relaunched the offensive

Friday, Iraqi elite forces have relaunched the offensive against the IU in the second city of Iraq.

Faced with stiff resistance from the terrorist group in their first entrance there is a week in the districts of Mosul, units of the Iraqi against terrorism (CTS) decided to consolidate their positions in the periphery, before continuing their operations .

"Our forces have launched an attack against Arbajiyah. Clashes are ongoing," said a commander of the CTS, Mountadhar Salem, referring to an area in the east of the second largest city in Iraq. These battles occur "after a few days of quiet."

There are between 3,000 and 5,000 jihadists in Mosul, according to US estimates. Their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, urged them to fight to the end.