On February 11, 2014, Yareb Al Budairi was leaving his paint shop, in the Hittin neighbourhood in Baghdad, when he was stopped by members of the 54th Brigade of the Iraqi Army and later arrested. Since then, his fate and whereabouts remain unknown.

Ali Al Bayati is a member of the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR), Iraq’s National Human Rights Institution, tasked with, among others, “ensuring the protection and promotion of human rights in Iraq”.

In November 2014, after ISIS occupied Hit district in Iraq’s Al Anbar Province, then 20-year-old Falah Al Aqili decided to leave Iraq for Istanbul, Turkey, with two other residents from Hit. On November 4, 2014, after Al Aqili arrived at Baghdad International Airport, alongside his two companions, they were stopped by a member of the airport security called Ali, just after having their passports stamped.

Ali Al Allawi is the head of a well-known football club in Baghdad’s Al Ghazaliya district. On November 2, 2017, he was arrested while travelling by car, alongside members of his team, to a football match in Al Ghazaliya. He was taken to an unknown location and has not contacted the outside world since. The individuals who arrested Al Allawi were travelling in white cars without number plates. According to witnesses, they belonged to the Directorate of Security and Discipline in the Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU).

On February 5, 2017, Aladdin Farhad was driving his car alongside some of his family members, in the Nurqal neighbourhood in Mosul, when he was stopped at a checkpoint by members of the Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU).

The members of the PMU then proceeded to arrest Farhad and confiscate his car, leaving behind the members of his family. Since then, his fate and whereabouts have remained unknown.

On March 6, 2017, Al Qaisi and his family fled Al Mansour neighbourhood in Mosul, where they normally lived, to Mosul’s Left Coast due to the ongoing clashes between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Iraqi security forces. In order to reach Mosul’s Left Coast, they had to go through Hammam Al Alil for a security check, in order to verify that they had no affiliation with ISIL. When they reached the checkpoint in Hammam Al Alil, they were not allowed to go through and were ordered to come back the next day.

On June 20, 2017, at approximately 11:00 pm, a military pickup truck carrying four armed men dressed in uniform showed up at Al Mhemeed’s home in the Al Ma'moun al Kwar neighbourhood in west Mosul, Ninewa. They knocked on the door of the house before informing Al Mhemeed’s father that they were looking for his son. When the father asked the gunmen why his son was wanted, they replied that they were from the National Security Service (NSS) and had questions for him.

Until March 2015, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fully controlled the village of Al Dur, located in the Salah Al Din governorate. In January 2015, Iraqi security forces, with the help of militias affiliated with the PMU, launched an offensive to liberate various parts of the Salah Al Din governorate, including the district of Al Dur.

Fearing clashes between ISIL militants and government forces, hundreds of families fled from Al Dur to take shelter in the rural areas nearby, including in farmlands and farmhouses situated in the Jallam Al Dur area.

On September 1, 2017, Abdullah Al Taei was arrested by members of the Anti-Crime Directorate of the Ministry of Interior. A secret informant had provided the authorities with the information that Taei had allegedly been involved in terrorism-related activities with ISIL.

On December 29, 2025, Ahmed Al Humady took a taxi from Mosul to Sulaymaniyah, via Baghdad, to retrieve his tanker truck that had been parked in Sulaymaniyah for several months. He was accompanied by some of his friends as well as a woman travelling to Baghdad too. As the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had blocked the Mosul-Baghdad highway at the time, the passengers took a different route, including through Anbar.