More than 300 Isis members sentenced to death

Courts in Iraq have sentenced more than 300 people to death for being members of Isis.

Dozens of foreign nationals are among those who have been told their fate, including a large number of women.

Two courts in Mosul and Baghdad have tried the suspects since January.

In total 103 foreigners have been given the death penalty with another 185 receiving life sentences.

In Mosul, another 212 people have been sentenced to death, mostly for complicity with Islamic State following the liberation of the area by Iraqi forces in July and August.

Mosul was home to two million people before being overrun in 2014 by Islamic State which proclaimed a ‘caliphate’ stretching into neighbouring Syria.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared full victory over the group last December after Iraqi forces drove its last remnants from the country.  click here to continue reading