Islamic State Kidnaps 30 Women in Mosul

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Islamic State Kidnaps 30 Women in Mosul
Women refused to marry jihadists
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Basnews | Hazhar Mamuzini
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IS militants kidnapped 30 women inside Mosul
Tags: Baghdad | Iraq | ISIL | ISIS | Mosul | Women
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The Islamic State militants kidnapped around 30 women from neighbourhoods of Mosul on April 20th.

Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) official from Mosul Saed Mamuzini told BasNews that the militants kidnapped the women because they refused temporary marriage (Nikah) with the jihadists.

The women are from the Wadi Ikab, Hail Tanak and Tamouz 17 neighbourhoods of Mosul and their current whereabouts is unknown.

Mamuzini explained, “IS insurgents had selected the women for temporary marriage with the jihadists, and kidnapped them when they refused.”

“The women are aged between 20 and 35, single and married.”

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D-day looms for Mosul battle but questions remain
Oct. 10, 2016 -- More than two years after the fall of Mosul to the Islamic State, the battle to liberate Iraq's second-largest city appears imminent.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in September that he expected the military offensive in Mosul to begin in October, although in later pronouncements he said he would decide at "the last minute" when to give the go-ahead. British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said the operation to liberate Mosul would begin "within weeks" and French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said, "There will soon be the main attack." Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the military offensive would begin Oct. 19. Iraqi officials said they expected the liberation to be swift and uncomplicated. "The capture of Mosul will be finished in record-breaking time," spokesman for the Iraqi army, Gen. Yahya Rasool, told the Financial Times.

Optimism was also expressed by Abadi in a recent interview with CNN. "Mosul is supposed to be easier than these other cities outside Mosul, which we've been liberating, because these are the outskirts," Abadi said. "They're supposed to be more pro-Daesh than the city itself," he added, using the Arabic acronym for IS. "We are planning for a fight for many months but we anticipate the fight for Mosul will be easier than probably Ramadi." The United States leads the anti-IS coalition that provided Iraq with air cover, trained its soldiers and sent 5,000 troops — mainly military advisers — to Iraq. U.S. officials said Iraqi forces are ready for the Mosul offensive.

Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. said in September that Iraqi forces "will have in early October all the forces marshalled, trained, fielded and equipped that are necessary for operations in Mosul." Observers, however, said they fear complications during and after the liberation of Mosul. Reports from Mosul indicate that IS has tightened its grip on the civilian population it is holding hostage in the city and is not expected to leave without bloodshed, booby traps and "tunnels of fire."

The United Nations and aid agencies have said they are not ready to cope with the hundreds of thousands of people expected to be displaced once the offensive begins in Mosul, which is home to around 1.5 million people. The Save the Children charity warned that the assault threatens "to put more than half a million children in the line of fire unless safe routes and other civilian protection measures are put in place." Authorities in Iraq's Kurdish region, which already hosts some 1.5 million internally displaced people, warned that they might not receive more people if they did not receive additional aid.

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Ammar is standing near a crowded bridge in Mosul, shivering in the sunlight. He's a thin 16-year-old with haunted eyes. But he's not worried about himself. He says he has come to try to find help for his sister. She's nine, and the ISIS attack that killed their parents as they tried to flee Mosul in June left her paralyzed. "We were walking and they were firing from a building," Ammar says. ISIS wanted to stop the civilians they used as human shields from leaving. There was a wall a few hundred yards away. "They were shooting at us," Ammar says. "If you could run to it, you could escape."

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Kawkab walks with a social worker in the Dabaga camp for displaced Iraqis. Kawkab says she was seven or eight when she saw ISIS militants shoot her mother dead. "They shot her with an assault rifle," she says. "They shot her and she died and they threw her off the bridge. I asked them, 'Why did you kill her? She's my mother. She didn't do anything.'"​

Ammar made it to the wall through the gunfire. His parents and his little sister didn't. "I helped to bury my father and mother and then we left the west side of the city," he says. Iraqi soldiers evacuated Ammar and his sister to the Kurdish capital Irbil, where doctors operated on the little girl. Ammar says she remained paralyzed. Amid a flood of civilian and military casualties, there was no follow-up care. There are no reliable statistics showing exactly how many civilians were killed in the battle for Mosul. But there are partial records showing that thousands of orphans were left behind.

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The Dabaga camp is home to Iraqis displaced by the war against ISIS. Aid workers are worried about the effects on children, including thousands who have lost parents in the battle.​

ISIS is believed to have shot hundreds of people who were trying to escape as Iraqi security forces closed in during the final battle this summer. More than 2,000 additional civilians were believed killed in U.S. and Iraqi airstrikes and mortar attacks on ISIS targets in the crowded west side. While many of the orphaned children have been absorbed into the families of relatives who care for them, some are left to fend for themselves. In Iraq's tribal culture, it's considered shameful to send children to orphanages. Many of them end with relatives who only reluctantly take them in.

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10-year-old Kawkab saw her mother shot dead in front of her by ISIS. "When my mother was alive, I was happy," says Kawkab. "Here I mostly stay home in the tent."​

In Iraq, one step above being homeless is living in an unfinished building – often the foundations of a house with concrete block outer walls, a concrete floor and a ceiling. That's where Ammar and his sister live now with their uncles, who were also displaced from the west side of the city. "They're not good. They don't feed us," Ammar says. "If I can find something to eat, we eat. If I don't, we don't." He says sometimes he gets food from Iraqi soldiers in the streets. His older cousins ignore his sister, he says, but routinely beat him up. He pulls up his faded shirt to show welts on his side. Ammar provides his last name but asks that it not be used. He's afraid of his uncles and won't give his address.

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