Kidnappings, killings and mysterious disappearances are attributed to re-emergence of Daesh in small towns around Iraq's Euphrates River Valley
HADITHA –
One of the men was a member of the emergency police brigade in his twenties, preparing to get married in the days in which he was killed. Another was a member of the local Popular Mobilization Forces . A third man with them disappeared, prompting suspicions in their hometown that he could have could have been secretly collaborating with Daesh. All three were from the Jughayfa tribe.
In the month of February 2019, an uptick of kidnappings and killings in western Iraq has been attributed to both the white truffle season – in which many people go looking for the tubers in the rocky desert plains – and to the reportedly large numbers of Daesh fighters fleeing across the border from Syria, where the group’s last tiny stronghold of territory is steadily being emptied and is expected to either surrender or be cleared militarily in the coming days.
“Sometimes we didn’t return to our homes for 40 days [when we were fighting],” Emad said. “I was always with him. Those were hard days. No money, no food. A lot of fighting. Hamed, a cousin who had often stayed in their home and “was like another brother”, was killed in West Mosul “a metre away from me”, Emad added.
Mohamed had had five or six operations on his hand after being shot several times, his cousin added. He had left Haditha only to go to Baghdad to get medical treatment.
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