Iraqi military investigators said Friday they have discovered two mass graves near a former ISIS group prison outside Mosul that contain the bodies of 500 ISIS victims.
The Media Cell Security Investigation team said in a statement that one grave near the Badoush Prison site contained the bodies of 470 prisoners killed by ISIS. It said a second grave containedRead more
Iraqi forces killed, on Sunday, 35 terrorists, in addition to destroying a cache of weapons and two hideouts, west of Anbar, while the federal police forces and the Iraqi army aircraft foiled, on Sunday, an attack by a number of suicide bombers after they managed to sneak into a liberated village south of Mosul.
An official security source saidRead more
The gunshot rang out as civilians tried to escape the west of Mosul, where Iraqi forces are battling jihadists, killing a father as he fled with his family.
"The sniper shot him in the head. His family was all around him, the children and his wife, they were crying," said Maysun, who saw the shooting as she fled Mosul's MaamunRead more
Three men set up a fence and a ribbon of yellow and black crime scene tape around a site south of Iraq's Mosul, marking a mass grave of jihadists' victims.
It is one of dozens of such sites discovered in areas around Iraq that have been recaptured from the Islamic State group, whose rule has been defined by extreme brutality.Read more