Iraqi female politician executed in public

Mosul: Daesh on Wednesday shot dead in public a female former candidate in the Iraqi parliamentary elections held last year, according to an official in the city of Mosul, where the killing took place.

The official, who declined to be identified for security reasons, told Efe news agency that Nahla Yunis Al Badrani, who worked as an official in the province of Nineveh, was executed in the centre of the provincial capital.

The Sunni radical group said it killed her for apostasy, for not complying with the teachings of Islam and for supporting the Iraqi government, which it said was “loyal to the West and Iran”.

Daesh has executed a large number of candidates who took part in the last Iraqi legislative elections, including several women.

Meanwhile, three Daesh suicide bombers, including a Frenchman, have detonated explosives-laden trucks in coordinated attacks on Iraqi troops and Shiite militia, destroying their targets, the group said Wednesday.

The attacks were carried out near Camp Speicher, 160 kilometres north of Baghdad in Salaheddin province, said claims on Twitter, seen by SITE Intelligence Group.

Daesh said a “gathering of the Safavid (Iraqi) army and its Rafidhi (Shiite) militias,” a barracks and a headquarters, all on the road connecting “Speicher Base/Fourth Division” were hit with a truck carrying six tonnes of explosives.

Each of the explosions resulted in the “complete destruction and elimination” of the target, it added.

Photos showed smiling young men, each with their right index finger pointing upward in a gesture referring to the unity of God.

They were named as Abul Talha Al Faransi, the Frenchman; Abu Omar Al Qatari, from Qatar and Abu Ukasha Al Shami, from Syria.