title: bahrainis support senior shia cleric sheikh qassim
text: iraq federal police forces launch a rocket during clashes with daesh militants south of mosul on october   photos by reuters 
  daesh executes over  civilians in mosul as the battle to liberate the iraqi city from the takfiris gains momentum 
  daesh militants continued to commit atrocities in the province of nineveh they executed  people in the area of hammam alalil after taking them hostage in different areas of mosul saidthe chairman of the iraqi parliamentary human rights committee abdel rakhim shamri on wednesday 
  he added that another  people were taken from the village of arij and executed after they refused to cooperate with the terrorists federal police forces take part in an operation against daesh militants south of mosul on october   
  shamri also called on iraqi prime minister haider alabadi to facilitate the airlifting of civilians from daeshheld areas in mosul as the terrorists are using them as human shields 
  on tuesday the un human rights office said it had preliminary reports about scores of mass killings by daesh around mosul in the past week federal police forces take part in an operation against daesh militants south of mosul on october   
  un human rights spokesman rupert colville told a regular un briefing in geneva that the bodies of  civilians with bullet wounds had been discovered by iraqi security forces in tuloul naser village on october  and  police officers being held outside the city had also reportedly been killed 
  daesh employing scorched earth policy 
  on wednesday the commander of the mosul operations major general najm al jabouri announced that government forces had liberated the villages of saf al tuth and nana after engaging enemy snipers stationed close to the villages 
  locals report that daesh militants are employing a scorched earth policy destroying buildings farms detonating explosives torching industrial plants and kidnapping and killing civilians as they are forced to retreat 
  my brother was killed by daesh because he wanted to join the security forces anyone who wanted to join the security forces would be killed they took a lot of people they carried them in pickup trucks and i have no idea what their fate will be said a resident of nana village 
  regional officials have confirmed the terrorists are kidnapping and executing people as they are forced to retreat by advancing iraqi forces 
  a member of the nineveh provincial council abdul rahman alwagga noted that the executions were carried out to terrorize the others those who are in mosul in particular 
  daesh was taking families from each village it left he added iraq army forces drive a military vehicle during the operation against daesh militants in qayyarah south of mosul on october   
  earlier military sources announced that peshmerga fighters had established control over dirik village near the town of bashiqa which lies  kilometers northeast of mosul 
  iraqs joint operations command also announced that iraqi counterterrorism units were only two kilometers away from mosul 
  since the beginning of the operations the iraqi army backed by volunteer forces has been engaged in a large military offensive to cleanse mosul of daesh terrorists the city fell in  when the terror group started ravaging the country naming mosul as its socalled headquarters in iraq loading