The journalist, who worked for Sama Mossel and Shafak News in Nineveh province, was killed by the so-called ISIS group according to local media. Qais had been detained by the Islamist militants in 2014 for his articles denouncing the ISIS presence in the Iraqi city of Mosul.
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