ISIS uses families as human shields

Rico's friend Kelley forwards these images, and Mazin Sidahmed has an article in the Guardian about them:

Photographs released on Friday appear to show the Islamic State group using civilians as human shields to flee the Syrian town of Manbi,j after being defeated by US-backed fighters.
The pictures, tweeted by the Syrian Democratic Force on Friday, show a long convoy of vehicles fleeing the town, each purportedly containing non-combatants to prevent attacks by coalition forces. The militants were fleeing north, towards Turkey, after being pushed out of Manbij following weeks of fighting. It was unclear whether the civilians were hostages or family members of the Islamic State fighters.
On Tuesday, Colonel Chris Garver, a spokesman for the American-led coalition against ISIS, said SDF fighters had allowed a hundred to two hundred vehicles of ISIS fighters to leave Manbij, as they contained civilians. “Civilians were observed in the convoy intermingled with fighters in every vehicle,” Garver said in a press briefing. He said it was unclear how many of the civilians were in the cars voluntarily, but it was likely some were hostages.
The SDF, an Arab-Kurdish alliance of fighters, took control of the northern Syrian city of Manbij last week after ten weeks of fierce fighting. According to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the battle claimed the lives of at least four hundred civilians, three hundred SDF fighters, and a thousand jihadists.
According to the SDF, ISIS took two thousand hostages as they were fleeing the city to the north to use as human shields, but the hostages were later released.
The jihadist group has repeatedly used human shields during combat in its ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Syria.
During fighting in Fallujah in May and June of 2016, ISIS held thousands of civilians captive to use as human shields in order to blunt the advance of Iraqi and coalition forces.
There was also confusion surrounding the presence of civilians in another ISIS convoy which came under fire as it was leaving Fallujah, after the militants were pushed out of the city in late June of 2016. An investigation into the presence of civilians by open-source researcher Bellingcat into the incident was inconclusive. Chris Woods, director of Airwars, a group which monitors the coalition’s airstrikes, said it would “make sense” if civilians were present.

  

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