Saturday 16 August 2014 15.35 Jihadist fighters blew up a Shia prayer hall in the Iraqi town of Jalawla and publicly executed the muezzin.
Islamic State (IS) fighters detained the muezzin, who calls for Muslim prayers, and blew up the Jalawla husseiniyah, a term used for a Shia place of worship.
Witnesses confirmed the execution, which came four days after IS militants wrested control of the town from Kurdish peshmerga forces following two of deadly fighting.
In Sayed Ahmad village north of Jalawla, IS fighters also executed six policemen, the same sources said.
Kurdish forces lost at least 10 fighters in the battle for Jalawla, a strategic choke-point 130 km northeast of Baghdad.
The IS's Sunni extremist fighters conquered large swathes of Iraq's Sunni heartland in June, while Diyala province is mixed.
Yesterday, members of more than 25 prominent Sunni tribes took up arms against jihadists and their allies west of the Iraqi capital.
The uprising in Anbar province came a day after Nuri al-Maliki, the incumbent premier who is widely reviled by Iraqi Sunni Arabs, abandoned his bid for a third term.
Anbar was the birthplace of a 2006 US-backed uprising against extremist militants that helped bring about a sharp reduction in violence.
The current effort could potentially be a major turning point in Iraq's two-month conflict against an IS-led offensive.
IS-led insurgents launched major attacks in June that swept security forces aside and overran large areas of five provinces.
The areas included Anbar, where parts of provincial capital Ramadi and all of the city of Fallujah had already been outside government control since January.
The leader of Iraq's Kurds appealed to Germany for weapons to help Kurdish fighters battling militants of the Islamic State.
They saidforeign powers must find a way to cut off the group's funding.
The European Union gave a green light to EU governments to supply arms and ammunition to the Kurds if it has the consent of the government in Baghdad.
Germany has shied away from direct involvement in military conflicts for much of the post-war era.
A survey conducted for Bild am Sonntag newspaper indicated that almost three quarters of Germans were against shipping weapons to the Kurds.
But Germany's defence minister has said the government was looking into the possibility of delivering military hardware.
Masoud Barzani, the president of Iraqi Kurdistan, said the Kurds needed more than the humanitarian aid.
Germany began sending humanitarian aid to support people forced to flee their homes by the Sunni militant group's advance.
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