Interior Ministry:

21 Executed in Iraq over Terrorism Charges

TEHRAN (defapress) – A total of 21 people have been executed in Iraq after they were convicted of charges related to terrorism, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

News ID: 82557

Date: 17 November 2020 - 14:13

Among those executed at a prison in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya were people involved in two suicide attacks that killed dozens of people the northern town of Tal Afar, the statement said, according to Reuters.

It gave no further details of the identities of the militants.

Iraq on December 9, 2017 declared the end of military operations against Daesh, which once held roughly one third of the country's soil.

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