Islamic State Militants Kill 16 From Iraqi Tribe: Officials

Islamic State fighters kidnapped and killed 16 members of an Iraqi tribe that has fought the Sunni militants in western Iraq, a tribal leader and a hospital official said on Saturday. The men were captured three days ago, and after a tip, tribal members searched a location north of the town of Hit and found their bodies in a well, Sheikh Naeem al-Ga'oud, chief of the Albu Nimr tribe, told Reuters. A doctor at the hospital in Hit the bodies had bullet wounds to the head and...

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