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Kirkuk Clean-up: another mass grave and preparing for returning refugees
 Mass grave of Islamic State victims found in Iraq’s Kirkuk Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi forces found on Friday a new mass grave of people executed by Islamic State militants in west of Kirkuk, a security source was quoted saying. National Iraqi News Agency (NINA) quoted the source saying that Popular Mobilization Forces ran into the grave in al-Riyad region. He said it contained the relics of citizens of southern and western Kirkuk executed by the militants during the occupation of Hawija, their former bastion southwest of the province. As Iraqi troops recaptured areas held by Islamic State militants since 2014, they have regularly run into mass graves of civilians and security agents executed by militants over accusations of fleeing the group’s havens or collaborating with security forces. Iraq govt lifts 130.000 war leftovers from Kirkuk’s Hawija Hawija (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi government teams have begun removing tens of thousands of war leftovers from Islamic State’s former bastion in Kirkuk province. The health and environment ministries said in a statement on Friday that their teams began removing 130.000 items left over by the war against the Islamic State in Hawija, a former group stronghold southwest of Kirkuk. The process, carried out in cooperation with the military and police, comes in preparation for the return of refugees. The government declared the recapture of Hawija in September. Explosives planted by the group across its bastions in Iraq have caused deaths even after the liberation of those regions by the Iraqi forces. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-01-27 |
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