share this islamic state leader abu bakr al-baghdadi released an audio recording , the first in almost a year, and expressed his confidence in the group<u+2019>s eventual victory. amnesty international warned that is has received reports of revenge attacks on civilians in villages near the tigris river . victims are accusing the sab<u+2019>wai tribal militia, which is a sunni group, of torture and false imprisonment. there are also reports that shi<u+2019>ite militiamen are interrogating civilians on the western mosul front. in mosul , civilians by the hundreds were able to escape the samah neighborhood. security forces liberated min gar and four other villages near hammam al-alil. khafsan, munita and qutba were also reported freed . also captured were abbasiya, ayn shahlub, bazzunnah, kharar, khubairat, mankar, qahira, rahmaniyah, shahlub, tal saif al athari, um izzam, and ayn al jahsh factory. shi<u+2019>ite militiamen reported the capture of a highway linking mosul with raqqa , syria. at least 283 people were killed and 84 were wounded in recent violence: in mosul , militants killed 150 civilians as they retreated from gogjiali . airstrikes left 100 militants dead and 40 wounded . eight militants were killed during house-to-house searches in gogjiali . east of mosul in the direction of tal afar , shi<u+2019>ite militias encountered many booby-traps in villages they recaptured. at least 15 militiamen were killed and 30 were wounded .
sectarian war crimes reported near mosul; 283 killed in iraq
margaret griffis