ISIS
militants have rounded up 100 youths in Fallujah and punished them for
not growing beards - as the terror group continues to lose ground to
Iraqi forces entering the city.
The kidnappings were part of a mass arrest of young people at the newly built al-Nazizah market in the west of Fallujah.
News of the arrests comes as Iraqi troops battling their way into the city repelled a four-hour counter-attack by ISIS in the south of the city.
Majid al-Juraisi, a tribal leader in the city, is quoted by Iraqi News
as saying: 'Today, ISIS elements carried out a campaign of mass arrests
of young people in al-Nazizah market, the new market near the railway
bridge west of the city and the center of Fallujah. The number of young
people that were arrested by ISIS amounted to about 100 youths.'
'The
reasons for the detention are them having not grown their beards and
the lack of support for the ISIS elements in the city.' AP
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