Iraq:

Differences Intensifying amongst ISIL Terrorists over Appointment of Successor to Baghdadi

Rasa - Intelligence sources reported that disunity and differences have intensified among ISIL commanders over the appointment of a successor to the terrorist group's Chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

News ID: 428792

Date: 09 April 2017 - 22:41

RNA - The sources reported that rifts have widened among senior commanders of ISIL after the terrorist group's Consultative Assembly introduced Abu Hafsa al-Mouseli, the deputy governor of Nineveh province, as the successor to Baghdadi.

The sources went on to say that al-Mouseli is one of the blood-minded members of ISIL that has been installed in several military, administrative and religious positions in the terrorist group.

They went on to say that differences and disunity among ISIL members in Western Mosul have intensified after the spread of the news about an attack on terrorists' meeting in al-Qa'em town West of Anbar province that injured Baghdadi seriously.

Eye-witnesses reported on Saturday that ISIL executed tens of civilians in Mosul, adding that the terrorist group also carried out chemical attack on Iraqi forces' positions and residential areas in the newly-liberated districts of the city.

The sources said that tens of civilians that tried to leave Mosul for government-controlled regions were killed by the ISIL terrorists, adding ISIL has hanged a number of bodies of executed civilians up power poles across the city.

They added that ISIL has again used chemical weapons against the Iraqi forces and civilians in Mosul.

In the meantime, Iraqi Kurdistan's Security Council informed that 140 civilians were killed by the ISIL in Mosul in recent days.

Meanwhile, Mosul municipality Chief Abdul Sattar Habbo said that the ISIL militants used poisonous gas against civilians in Iraqi city of Mosul on Friday.

"The Daesh (ISIL) used shells with poisonous gas against civilians and government troops in the districts of Yarmouk and Matahin that had already been liberated," Habbo said.

He added that there was no information about the number of the victims of the chemical attack.

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