Iraq starts with a series of terrorist executions

Iraq has executed the first twelve sentenced terrorists.

'Following the orders of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, executions were carried out on twelve convicted terrorists,' said a government spokesman in a statement.

Al-Abadi made the decision for the executions in retaliation for the murder of eight government officials who had been kidnapped by fighters of Islamic State. Security officials found the severely mutilated corpses of their colleagues on Wednesday.