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WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (KUNA) -- The US confirmed on Monday additional reports of "ISIL's brutality" from over the weekend and noted that the violence "proves once again that ISIL does not represent anything but its warped ideology."
State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki relayed to reporters evidence of an ISIL massacre of hundreds of members of the Albu Nimr Sunni tribe, including many women and children.
There was an additional report of "indiscriminate killing of other Sunni tribe members and a senseless attack on Shia pilgrims preparing for the commencement of Ashura," Psaki asserted.
She reiterated that these incidents, "provide more evidence, if any were needed, why our coalition partners, including Iraqis from every background, must work together to defeat these terrorists."
Earlier today, Sheikh Na'eem Al-Ka'oud, Albu Nimr tribe headman, confirmed that ISIL executed 36 member of his tribe in Al-Anbar Governorate, west Iraq, raising to 350 the death toll of ISIL's mass executions against the tribe in less than a month.
Albu Nimr was part of the Sahwa (awakening) militia that fought Al-Qaeda Organization in Iraq after 2007 and resisted the recent spread of ISIL in northwestern parts of the country. (end)
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