Iraq has sentenced over 3000 prisoners to death for having links and involvement with the Islamic State and other terror organizations in the country since 2013. In the four-year fight with the terrorist organizations, Iraq has detained or imprisoned at least 19,000 people accused of terror-related offenses.
Since 2014, about 250 executions of convicted Daesh members have been carried out, according to the Baghdad-based intelligence official.
Those sentenced to death include the sister of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and foreigners who traveled to join ISIS’s self-declared caliphate.
The rising number of those detained and imprisoned reflects the more than four-year fight against Daesh, which first formed in 2013 and conquered nearly a third of Iraq and neighboring Syria the next year.
