article_snippet.sent: Local official Mowaffaq Hamid al-Azawi described the city of Mosul as a big open-air prison, where residents are subjected to barbaric torture at the hands of the ISIS terrorists.
article_snippet.sent: The news comes as the jihadis reportedly executed 60 Sunni tribal fighters in Iraq's Anbar province.
article_snippet.sent: Members of the Al-Karableh, Albu Ubaid, Albu Mahal and Albu Salman tribes were brutally executed after paranoid ISIS militants accused Members of the Al-Karableh, Albu Ubaid, Albu Mahal and Albu Salman tribes of collaborating with the Iraqi security forces.
article_snippet.sent: More than 200 Yazidi prisoners have been set free in northern Iraq after nearly a year in Islamic State captivity, Kurdish military has said today.
article_snippet.sent: More than 200 Yazidi prisoners said that More than 200 Yazidi prisoners had been led to believe More than 200 Yazidi prisoners were being led to More than 200 Yazidi prisoners execution, but instead, were piled onto a minibus that drove More than 200 Yazidi prisoners to peshmerga positions.
article_snippet.sent: The Yazidis, made up of women, children and the elderly, are said to be in poor health and bearing signs of abuse and neglect.
article_snippet.sent: The 216 prisoners, including 40 children, believed The 216 prisoners, including 40 children were being led to The 216 prisoners, including 40 children , but instead, were piled onto minibuses that drove The 216 prisoners, including 40 children to a handover southwest of Kirkuk .
article_snippet.sent: More than 200 Yazidi prisoners have been held captive in the Islamic State since last summer when militants attacked militants villages in the area around Sinjar in northwestern Iraq.
article_snippet.sent: General Hiwa Abdullah, a peshmerga commander in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, said that about 40 children are among those released, while the rest were elderly, some of whom were too exhausted and disoriented to speak.
article_snippet.sent: No reason was given for the release of the prisoners, which took place in Himera just southwest of Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad.
article_snippet.sent: killing hundreds and taking thousands captive.
highlights_snippet.sent: Terrorists then dragged the 10 men out in to the desert and shot the 10 men .