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The death toll in Iraq from four consecutive days of violence has reached at least 140 people, stirring fears that rising sectarian conflicts could lead the country into civil war. Many Iraqis were in mourning on Sunday amid simmering tensions between the Sunni minority and Shia majority despite increased security patrols. In Baghdad, the presence […]

In guesthouses and mosques across Iraq's Anbar province, the talk at Sunni tribal gatherings has turned from the usual debate over local politics to a matter even more pressing - the war next door. Many people in Iraq's Sunni heartland, once al Qaeda's stronghold in the country, are most concerned with helping their kin. Tribal […]

A mass grave of 150 ISIS militants was found in southeastern Mosul province on Wednesday, Saeed Mamuzini, a media officer for the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s (KDP) Branch 17 branch in Mosul, told Rudaw. Mamuzini said the grave site was found by a shepherd who was recently arrested by the Islamic State militants. The mass grave reportedly […]

Iraqi authorities have uncovered a mass grave in Ramadi containing at least 40 bodies, including women and children, apparently killed by Islamic State insurgents when they seized the city in May, police and provincial officials said. Footage posted on the Facebook page of the provincial police on Wednesday showed what appeared to be bodies in varying […]

Iraqi authorities banned Sunday visits to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's grave in Salahudin province. "The Iraqi cabinet directed authorities of Salahudin province to take all necessary measures to prevent any visit to Saddam Hussein's grave," a source from the provincial operations command told Xinhua. The provincial authorities sent a police force early in the morning […]

With every mile of territory the Iraqi security forces retake from the Islamic State, it seems another mass grave is uncovered. It has become nearly ritual, and despairingly regular. The legacy of the mass grave in Iraq is long, stretching back further than the Islamic State to the times of Saddam Hussein’s industrial-scale killings. It […]

Iraqi forces have found more than 40 bodies, including those of women and children, in a mass grave in the city of Ramadi west of Baghdad, which they recently retook from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, officials said. Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Saad Maan said the grave in central Ramadi contained the bodies […]

“Many of the bodies, the hands were tied. They were blindfolded and shot in the forehead,” said Omar Hasan as he surveyed remains scattered beside a sinkhole Islamic State had turned into a mass grave. A captain in a local Sunni tribal militia that polices the area around the village of Al Houd since it […]

The Islamic State (also known as ISIS) executed and dumped the bodies of possibly hundreds of detainees at a site near Mosul, Human Rights Watch said today. Multiple witnesses told Human Rights Watch that the bodies of those killed, including bodies of members of Iraqi security forces, were thrown into a naturally occurring sinkhole at […]

A mass grave discovered near Mosul by Iraqi Security Forces on November 7, 2016, most likely contains the bodies of at least 300 former local police officers executed by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS. Witnesses said that they believe that at the end of October, ISIS massacred several hundred former policemen they had […]

Iraqi forensic teams in Basra have found a mass grave containing 377 bodies believed to be mainly women and children killed by Saddam Hussein's forces during the failed Shia uprising of 1991. The mass grave was found in the east of Basra province, and is the second largest ever discovered in southern Iraq, Mehdi Tamimi, an […]

The sinkhole that could be the largest mass grave in Iraq's latest conflict is barely visible from the road, nothing more than a small depression behind a desert ridge near Mosul. The place known as the Khasfah (an Arabic word for a crack or a hole that opens up in the ground) was once a […]

A mass grave believed to contain the remains of more than 70 members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority was discovered east of Sinjar town after Kurdish forces claimed victory over Islamic State militants in the area, the mayor and locals have said. The insurgents overran the Yazidi heartland of Sinjar in north-west Iraq in August 2014, systematically killing, capturing and […]

The Iraqi government has started exhuming a mass grave left behind by the Islamic State group in the northwestern Sinjar region in the presence of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad, whose slain relatives are believed to have been buried in the area. The exhumation, which is being carried out with U.N. support, began Friday […]

A few thousand people once lived in this tiny Iraqi village 270 miles north of Baghdad. Today, it is a ghost town with few signs of life — and a mass grave nearby where members of the Yazidi sect were slaughtered by Islamic State militants. It's one of 11 mass graves discovered in northern Iraq by Kurdish residents who fear other undiscovered burial […]

Iraqi authorities on Tuesday began to identify bodies discovered in a mass grave in a village southeast of Mosul, as the United Nations said Islamic State militants had forced 1,500 families to retreat with them from the village into the city. Iraqi authorities said the remains of some 100 decapitated bodies found Monday by Iraqi […]

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 […]

A series of attacks across Iraq on Friday killed 17 people, including four Shiite militiamen and a Sunni tribal chief, while a mass grave in the north was found to contain the bodies of 15 Shiite truck drivers killed by Sunni militants. Police officials said the deadliest attack happened when a car bomb went off […]

The wild dogs found the bodies first. In February a Kurdish sheep herder discovered the mass grave a few miles from the tiny Iraqi village of Sinuni, 270 miles north of Baghdad. Among the 37 skeletal remains were women and children as young as two. The dogs fed on the dead, scattering their bones. The victims had […]

A mass grave containing the bodies of around 40 civilians has been found in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, a regional official said Monday. Iraqi forces last month retook the center of the city, which is the capital of Anbar province, more than seven months after it was overrun by ISIS. Eed Amash, spokesman of Anbar Governing […]

Iraqi forces discovered a mass grave on Sunday after retaking an area from the militant Islamic State (IS) group near Fallujah, where the militants are using thousands of civilians as human shields. Growing numbers of families reaching camps south of Fallujah told horrific accounts of how IS shot at them as they fled, but there […]

Authorities in Mosul have buried more than 1,000 bodies in a mass grave in a desert valley outside the city, most of them believed to be Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group militants, according to a provincial official. More remains are being dug out of the rubble of the district where the fighters made their […]