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Iraq
Mass grave found near Daesh-held Mosul
2016-11-08
[AA.TR] A mass grave has been found in an area south of the ISIS-held city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, a top Iraqi security official said on Monday.

"The grave, located in the district of Hamam al-Alil, contains the remains of 100 people, including civilians, who were killed months ago by ISIS terrorists," said Brig. Gen. Ali al-Lami in a statement read out by Iraqi state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
"Some of the bodies were decapitated," he added.

Al-Lami also said, "The remains belong to civilians who refused to collaborate with the ISIS terrorist group, including members of the Iraqi security forces."

On Saturday the army announced the recapture of Hammam al-Alil, one of ISIS’s last strongholds south of Mosul, soon after storming it.

On Oct. 18, the Iraqi army, backed by U.S.-led coalition Arclight airstrikes, launched a wide-ranging operation aimed at retaking Mosul, which ISIS overran ‐ along with additional territory in northern and western Iraq ‐ in mid-2014.

Recent months have seen the Iraqi army retake much territory, especially on the outskirts of Mosul ‐ the regional capital of Iraq’s northern Nineveh province ‐ and in the western province of Anbar.
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