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Kurds May Be Torturing Captured ISIS Fighters

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On October 22nd, a team of Kurdish soldiers, backed up by elite commandos from the U.S. Army’s Delta Force, raided an ISIS prison compound in the Iraqi town of Hawija. That's where Kurdish intelligence indicated dozens of their own peshmerga fighters were being held. It turned out there were no Kurds in the prison, but 69 hostages were freed, and more than 20 ISIS fighters were killed. The Kurds also took six ISIS fighters as their prisoners. Now, U.S. officials and humanitarian aid workers in the region tell The Daily Beast it appears those ISIS prisoners are being tortured in Kurdish custody. A U.S. defense official in Iraq who is familiar with raid and spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “I am sure they are being tortured, no question." He noted that Americans do not have access to them, but added, “You have to remember where we are. Torture is pervasive.”

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