ISIL abducts 30 Kurdish families in Iraqi city of Mosul

The ISIL terrorist group has kidnapped nearly 30 Kurdish families, who were trying to flee the militants’ main stronghold in the Iraqi city of Mosul, a Kurdish source says.

According to the source, an official from the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the Kurds were attempting to escape from the Zemar district in Mosul.

The ISIL terrorist group has threatened all Kurdish families in Mosul to leave or face death.

The residents of the areas on the southern and western edges of Mosul, which are currently controlled by the ISIL, have recently discovered five mass graves containing the remains of some 320 people believed to have been killed by the Takfiri terrorists.

The ISIL started its campaign of terror in Iraq in early June 2014. The heavily-armed militants took control of Mosul before sweeping through parts of the country’s Sunni Arab heartland.

The terrorists have been carrying out horrific acts of violence, including public decapitations, against all Iraqi communities such as Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.

Iraqi soldiers, police units, Kurdish forces, Shia volunteers and Sunni tribesmen have recently succeeded in driving the ISIL out of some areas in Iraq.