ICC Note: The Islamic State in Iraq has published a video showing they are still a force to be reckoned with. Videos of children carrying out executions in Mosul, reports of civilian massacres are flooding out of Mosul. The coalition efforts to expel and defeat IS have recently slowed in the dense city with millions of civilians. IS has been known to use human shields in their battle efforts against the Iraqi Security forces.

11/15/2016 Iraq (Christian Post): Children as young as 10 years old brainwashed by the Islamic State terror group have been executing civilians near the Iraqi city of Mosul, according to reports.

The New York Times reports that videos posted online last week show four children, aged between 10 to 14, shooting four civilians accused of disloyalty to IS near the Tigris River. The children were comprised of two Iraqis, one Russian and one from Uzbekistan.

Ravina Shamdasani, a spokeswoman for the United Nations human rights office in Geneva, said that it’s not known when precisely the executions took place, but they are believed to be recent, as IS has been fighting hard to keep control of Mosul, which is the terror group’s last stronghold in Iraq.

“They are showing they are still in business,” Shamdasani said of IS.

Several other massacres of civilians in Mosul have also been reported in recent weeks, as U.S.-backed coalition forces have made gains in their mission to drive out the radicals.

“In one massacre, militants were said to have summarily shot 40 civilians in Mosul, dressing them in orange clothes adorned with words marked in red, labeling them ‘traitors and agents of the I.S.F.,'” the NYT reports.

“Afterward, the militants strung up the bodies of their victims from electricity poles around the city — a practice the Islamic State long used to strike fear into those who live in the group’s strongholds.”

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