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IS executed over 200 Iraq tribesmen in recent days: officials

IS executed over 200 Iraq tribesmen in recent days: officials

IS executed over 200 Iraq tribesmen in recent days: officials

A member of the Iraqi security forces keeps watch on the main highway near Ramadi, Anbar's provincial capital, west of Baghdad on August 14, 2014

Baghdad (AFP) - The Islamic State jihadist group has in recent days executed more than 200 members of an Iraqi tribe that fought against it, officials and a tribal leader said Sunday.

Accounts varied as to the exact period in which the Albu Nimr tribesmen were killed in Iraq's Anbar province, but the executions were all said to have been carried out within the last 10 days.

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