BAGHDAD: Iraq, struggling to curb its worst violence in years, is offering bounties of up to $25,000 for killing or capturing a foreign jihadist fighter, state television reported yesterday.
The defence ministry is offering 20 million dinars ($16,666) to anyone who “kills a foreign terrorist from ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) and Al Qaeda” and 30 million dinars to anyone who captures “a terrorist from among them,” it reported.
ISIL is a powerful jihadist group that carries out frequent attacks in Iraq, and has also flourished across the border during Syria’s bloody civil war.
Yesterday, five mortar rounds struck the Mussayib area south of Baghdad, killing 17 people, police and a doctor said.
The shelling, which hit an area of shops and restaurants that draws crowds at night, also wounded 70 people, the sources said.
AFP
