IS executes its top four commanders

Baghdad, April 11: The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group has executed four of its senior commanders in Iraq's northern province of Salahuddin on the ground that they had fled during clashes with Iraqi government forces. A security source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the terrorist group's leader, Ibrahim al-Samarrai alias Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ordered the execution of the IS top-brass by a firing squad on the outskirts of the city of Shirqat, located some 300 km north of Iraq's capital Baghdad, Iraqi News online reported on Saturday. This came a day after the IS executed 13 of its own members after they suffered defeat during an offensive in Iraq's northern oil-rich province of Kirkuk.