Gunmen assassinated a Sunni cleric in northern Mosul on Monday, hospital officials said. Sheikh Faidh Mohamed Amin al-Faidhi, a member of the influential Association of Muslim Scholar, was shot in his home in the morning, said an official at al-Jumhuri Hospital. He was taken to the hospital, where he died after surgery, the medical source added. The late al-Faidhi was the brother of the group's spokesman, Mohammed Bashar al-Faidhi, said Sheikh Hosham al-Badrani, another association member in Mosul.
