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ISIS beheads eight of its own militants on charges of treason in Iraq

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The extremist group of ISIS on Sunday executed a group of its own Iraqi militants in Anbar province, on charges of dissidence attempts, local sources reported.

A media source said that ISIS has recently arrested dozens of its own Iraqi militant fighters for trying to dissent and flee the city of Ramadi in Anbar province.

“The terror group beheaded eight of its militants in the town of Zankura in Anbar province, in addition to the arrest of dozens of local Iraqi militants,” the source reported.

“They were beheaded for committing high treason,” the source said on the condition of anonymity.

“They had planned their escape since weeks, but they were arrested on an ISIS checkpoint,” the source added.

In January, at least 15 ISIS militants in the Syrian border city of Tel Abyad have reportedly defected from the group and headed to the Turkish territory.

In October, 12 ISIS foreign militants were captured while trying to cross the border into Turkey. The group executed them on charges of treason.

ISIS has reportedly created a special police force to arrest those who try to flee what it described as “duty”.

Over the last few months, dozens of militants dissented from the ranks of the terrorist group in Syria’s Raqqa and Iraqi provinces of Anbar and Nineveh, amid internal rifts over the distribution of money and power, according to local sources.

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Massacre of pilgrims in Mina entangle Al-Saud soon: cleric

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A ceremony was held to mark the 40th day after the funeral of clerics victimized in Mina tragedy in attendance of hundreds of people in A’zam (Grand) Mosque on Sunday.

In a ceremony held at A’zam mosque of Qom on Sunday, the fortieth day after the funeral of clergymen passed away in Mina tragedy was commemorated.

The event was jointly organized by Iranian Leader’s Representative Office in Hajj and Pilgrimage Affairs, Seminary Services Center, The Custodianship of Qom’s Holy Shrine, and the Governor General of Qom Province.

Many senior clerics attended the event among them were Grand Ayatollah Alavi Gorgani, Grand Ayatollah Shobeiri Zanjani, Ayatollah Bushehry, and Ayatollah Moghtadaei.

The unjust massacre of pilgrims in Mina will soon entangle the Al-Saud House, said Hosseini Khorasani one of the figures who gave speech in the ceremony.

He added that it is a pity that those who call themselves as the Custodians of Holy Shrines of Mecca and Medina dodged a simple extension of sympathy to Muslims of the world who suffered losses in Mina tragedy.

‘It is because of the hallucination of wealth and illusory power that Saudis feel unrestrained from principles of reason, humanity, and international etiquette,’ the cleric affirmed.

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Egyptian security forces kill senior ISIL commander in Sinai

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Egyptian security forces on Monday traced and targeted one of the hideouts of ISIL terrorists in the Sinai peninsula and killed their commander.

The Egyptian interior ministry announced that the country’s security forces stormed the hideout of the ISIL-affiliated group of Ansar Baytul Maqdas in Sinai and killed one of the key leaders of the ISIL.

No more explanations have been presented by Cairo officials yet.

In September, the Egyptian Army said it had launched a “major military operation” in the Sinai Peninsula against the ISIL Takfiri group, killing 29 terrorists and leaving two soldiers dead.

“Units of the police and army launched Operation Right of the Martyr at dawn to eliminate terrorist elements in Rafah, Sheikh Zuweid and El-Arish in North Sinai,” the army said at the time.

“Twenty-nine miscreants were killed… while an officer and a non-commissioned soldier were killed and four others wounded when their vehicle was blown up by a bomb.”

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Political means solution for Yemen, Syria: Belgium FM

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Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said on Monday that existing crises in Syria and Yemen should be resolved through political means and invited all parties to sit at negotiations table.

Referring to deeply rooted relations between Iran and Belgium which date back to some 125 years ago, he said he is to send a set of historical archives indicating profound relations between the two countries.

Talks on human rights issue could be on the agenda Iran-European Union talks, he said, adding that grounds for expansion of economic cooperation between Iran and Belgium are well prepared.

Welcoming nuclear deal between Iran and G5+1, he expressed the hope that talks would be continued after lifting of economic sanctions, thus enabling both sides to broaden economic cooperation, he said.

All should help find political solutions to regional issues such as displacement of a huge number of people as there is no military solution to this end, he said.

Belgium is determined to broaden cultural, scientific and academic cooperation inlcuding nuclear medicine with Iran, he said.

He also extended an invitation to his Iranian counterpart to pay an officials visit to Belgium.

The Belgian foreign minister leading a 20 member economic delegation arrived in Tehran on Sunday.

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China will take part in the second meeting on Syria in Vienna

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China will take part in the broad ministerial meeting on Syria scheduled for November 14, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei told a briefing on Monday.

“The second broad ministerial meeting on Syria will take place in Vienna on November 14. China will take part in the meeting to facilitate the political resolution of the Syrian problem,” he said.

On October 29, a four-party meeting took place in Vienna between Russia, US, Saudi Arabia and Turkey on the settlement of the crisis in Syria. On October 30, the discussion was joined by other countries and organizations, 19 in total. A final document was adopted after the meeting.

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400,000 Syrian refugee children lack access to schools in Turkey

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Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugee children of school age are not provided with education in Turkey, a new report says.

According to data released by Human Rights Watch on Monday, only one third of the Syrian refugee children in Turkey are attending school. Of more than 700,000 children, only about 200,000 were attending classes in the previous school year, the report said.

Turkey has been hosting more than 2 million refugees from Syria since the country’s crisis began in 2011.

“If a child doesn’t go to school, it will create big problems in the future – they will end up on the streets, or go back to Syria to die fighting, or be radicalized into extremists, or die in the ocean trying to reach Europe,” read the report.

The 62-page report documented the obstacles that prevent Syrian children from getting formal education in Turkey. Language barriers and financial difficulties were among the impediments mentioned in the report.

Many other children face bullying and social integration difficulties that lead them to drop out, the report said. Other refugee children are not attending school due to working to financially support their families.

Turkey allowed Syrian children to attend public schools last year, but did not provide sufficient schools for non-Turkish speakers.

Human Rights Watch called on Ankara to work quickly to secure these children’s education.

Syria has been gripped by deadly violence since March 2011. More than 230,000 people have reportedly been killed and millions displaced due to the violence fueled by the foreign-sponsored militants in Syria.

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Three ISIS Leaders killed in Aleppo, Syria

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Terrorist organizations acknowledged the death of many terrorists including three self claimed leaders of the so-called “Ahrar al-Sham Islamic movement” in the southern countryside of Aleppo northern province.

The terrorist organizations mentioned in their social networking websites the death of the so-called leader of “al-Mohajereen Battalion” Abu Islam al-Hamwi, and the two field leaders in “al-Hijra Ela Allah Battalion” Adu Abdullah al-Rasafi and Abdul Basset Abu Mahmoud, who belong to “Islamic Ihrar al-Sham movement.”

The terrorist Abdullatif Mohammad al-Hamwia and Mohammd Turkey Salama of “Ahamad Assaf Battalion” were also referred to among the killed terrorists.

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Iran’s Shamkhani Derides West’s So-Called Fight on ISIL

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Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council derided the US-led military coalition’s so-called fight against the ISIL terrorist group as a “joke”, saying Americans are dragging their feet over hitting the notorious group due to political reasons.

“Daesh is a tool for the West to advance its regional policies,” Ali Shamkhani said in a television talk show, using an Arabic acronym for ISIL.

He then referred to the US-led military coalition’s inability to wipe out the ISIL militants after months of military strikes, noting that Americans do not bother to target the convoys of hundreds of oil tankers that ISIL uses to smuggle oil.

ISIL is nothing more than “equipment and bases”, and the West can definitely strike them with such huge capabilities, Shamkhani stated.

He underlined that the West is using the terrorist group as a pretext to sell arms and make regional governments dependent.

That 130 sorties carried out by the US-led forces in a single day hit only 12 not so serious targets reveals that their battle against ISIL is a mere “joke”, the top official went on to say.

While the US and some of its allies began to launch airstrikes on ISIL targets in Syria in September 2014, the terrorist group has not gone out of existence.

But the battle against the ISIL militants entered a new stage after Russia began to carry out bombings against the terrorist group in Syria in late September 2015.

It came after Russia’s parliament granted President Vladimir Putin authorization to deploy the country’s air force abroad.

Reports suggest severe damages to the ISIL strongholds after Russia’s aerial attacks, something that lays bare the futility of a US-led military coalition against the militants in Syria after about a whole year.

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Israeli forces arrest Ibrahimi Mosque director

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Israeli forces have nabbed the director of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron).

On Saturday, Israeli forces denied Palestinians entry to the mosque, which is located in al-Khalil’s Old City.

The mosque’s director, Munther Abu al-Failat, was also arrested.

Palestinian Religious Endowments Minister Yousef Adeis slammed the move as racist, saying the mosque is an Islamic site and has nothing to do with the Jews.

Israeli settlers, under the protection of the Tel Aviv regime forces, reportedly attacked Palestinian homes near the mosque with rocks.

Also on Saturday, Israeli forces blocked exits from al-Khalil in search of assailants who allegedly stabbed three Israelis.

The Israeli military also blocked off the northern entrance of al-Khalil with mounds of dirt. The eastern entrance has been sealed off for days.

Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem on Friday lashed out at the Israeli military for carrying out “immoral and unlawful” measures which it said hinder the Palestinian freedom of movement in al-Khalil.

“These steps constitute collective punishment of residents of Hebron who are suspected of nothing and are forced to suffer serious disruptions in their daily lives,” the group said.

Meanwhile, an Israeli soldier was shot by friendly fire in the al-Ras area east of the Ibrahimi Mosque on Saturday.

An Israeli military spokesman confirmed that the soldier was injured by the “accidental discharge of a bullet.”

Home to 200,000 Palestinians, al-Khalil sees frequent cases of violence as hundreds of Israeli settlers also live in the city, which has been the scene of near-daily clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian protesters.

Also on Saturday, Israeli forces raided Palestinians home in the city of Nablus and nabbed three Palestinians.

Tensions in the occupied territories have dramatically escalated in recent weeks.

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Three bomb attacks kill 6, injured 26 in Baghdad

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At least six people have been killed and 26 others injured in three bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

The explosions took place in Sadr City in east Baghdad on Sunday, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said. Reports also indicate that the number of fatalities is likely to rise.

Separately, a booby trap bomb injured five other Iraqis near a local market in Abu Ghraib district in western Baghdad.

No group or individual has taken responsibility for the attacks. However, the Takfiri Daesh terrorists are often blamed for such attacks.

On Saturday, nine people were killed in three separate bomb attacks in Baghdad.

The northern and western parts of Iraq have been plagued by the Daesh terrorists, who began their spread of terror through some parts of the Iraqi territory in June 2014.

Army soldiers and Popular Mobilization Units have teamed up to take back militant-held regions.

The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq says a total of 717 Iraqis were killed and another 1,216 wounded in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in September alone.

According to the UN mission, the number of civilian fatalities stood at 537. Violence also claimed the lives of 180 members of the Iraqi security forces. A great portion of the fatalities was recorded in Baghdad, where 257 civilians were killed.

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