{"id":346,"date":"2015-01-03T21:33:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T21:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=346"},"modified":"2015-01-12T15:24:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:24:55","slug":"isis-militants-kidnapped-iraqi-civilians-for-burning-militant-islamic-state-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/isis-militants-kidnapped-iraqi-civilians-for-burning-militant-islamic-state-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS militants kidnapped Iraqi civilians for burning militant Islamic State flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State militants have rounded up and kidnapped almost 200 civilians from two villages in northern Iraq, officials say. The incident reportedly occurred after a number of people burnt the militant group&#8217;s flag.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of &#8220;Islamic State&#8221; fighters surrounded two villages in northern Iraq on Friday and took away some 170 civilians, after several residents burnt flags belonging to the militant group, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The militants used around 30 vehicles to transport the civilians from their villages of al-Shajra and Gharib in Kirkuk province to the nearby town of Hawijah, an Iraqi secret services official said. He said the group had a court and a prison in the town.<\/p>\n<p>A resident from al-Shajra quoted the jihadists as saying that all those reponsible for burning their flags would be punished.<\/p>\n<p>The IS group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.de\/is-is-executing-foreign-fighters-trying-to-quit-report\/a-18144247\">has already executed<\/a> thousands of people in the areas they control in Iraq and neighboring Syria, sometimes filming the killings.<\/p>\n<p>The jihadist militants captured large swathes of territory in northern and western Iraq in a lightning summer offensive, forcing the Iraqi army to withdraw in disarray.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, however, government forces, aided by Shiite and Kurdish militia and US-led airstrikes, have succeeded in retaking several regions from the group.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.de\/islamic-state-militants-seize-iraqi-civilians-for-burning-flag\/a-18168749\" target=\"_blank\">DW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State militants have rounded up and kidnapped almost 200 civilians from two villages in northern Iraq, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[4,14,356,15,11],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-middle-east","tag-militants","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ISIS-Militants.jpg?fit=636%2C473&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-5A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}