Saddam Hussein’s senior aide captured in Iraq

Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, on Saturday confirmed that the Iraqi security forces has captured a leading figure in Saddam Hussein’s Baath party in an operation based on intelligence reports.

Al-Abadi said this in his address to a ceremony in Baghdad for the 146th anniversary of the Iraqi press.

Ex-Saddam Hussein aide, Tariq Aziz, dies of heart attack

The man known as the face of Saddam Hussein's regime on the world stage for many years, has died in an Iraqi hospital, officials say.

Tariq Aziz, 79, served as foreign minister and deputy prime minister and was a close adviser to the former leader.

He was sentenced to death by the Iraqi Supreme Court in 2010 for the persecution of religious parties under Saddam's rule but was never executed.

Five Boko Haram members training under ISIS killed In Iraq

Boko Haram goes international, five Boko Haram terrorists undergoing training in Iraq were on Wednesday killed by a vigilante group, the Mosul Youth Resistance Movement.

The Boko Haram members receiving training from the Islamic State terror group (ISIS) met their waterloo in the Dargaza area of Eastern Mosul.

5 men receive 20 lashes each for installing toilets in their home

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Mosul, announced that its fighters had whipped five men for using flush toilet instead of squat toilet in their homes.

The incident unfolded on Tuesday night. Each of the five men were lashed 20 times. Residents in the city, said that ISIS warned that they would lash anyone who uses a flush toilet in their home.

ISIS also warned residents to refrain from using cellphones, watching TV and chewing gum. Violators will receive 20 lashes for each offense.

Earlier this month, ISIS fighters captured a man and took him as a prisoner to Mosul.The mother of the man, who was determined to see her son, traveled to ISIS headquarters and asked to see him. The terrorists told the mother to rest after her long journey, and offered her food before taking her to her son.

They brought her cups of tea and fed her a meal of cooked meat, rice and soup. At first, she thought that they were kind.

When she was done eating, she asked the terrorists to take her to her son, but they laughed in her face, saying that she just ate him.

The poor woman did not know that the terrorists killed her son and made a meal from his flesh before feeding her.

 Weird!