The Islamic State (ISIS) group has executed more than 2,000 people in and around the  northern Iraqi city of Mosul since seizing it last year, officials said Friday, according to AFP.

Parliament speaker Salim al-Juburi confirmed "the execution of more than 2,000 innocent citizens at the hands of the terrorist Daesh organization," his office said, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS.

(Arutz Sheva’s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)


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