According to a local security service officer, in a city 90 km west of Kirkur, Jihadists executed in a public market six men accused of trying to organize a group of Sunni resistance in the Islamic State, while at the same time, 35 km south, they beheaded anther three men who had been kidnapped three days earlier and were former members of Sawan, which is the Sunni militia that fought al-Qaeda with the support of the American armed forces during the period 2007-8.
Iraqi government is dominated by Shiites, and encourages Sunni breeds to rebel against the Islamic State.