Mass grave found near Mosul as Kurdish forces clash with Islamic State

The Iraqi military says it has found some 100 decapitated bodies in a mass grave south of the Islamic State-held city of Mosul.

Mass grave found near Mosul as Kurdish forces clash with Islamic State

The Iraqi military says it has found some 100 decapitated bodies in a mass grave south of the Islamic State-held city of Mosul.

The spokesman for the Joint Military Command, Brigadier General Yahya Rasool, said the bodies were discovered on Monday near the agricultural college in the town of Hamam al-Alil. Most were reduced to skeletons.

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