Iraqi security forces have found mass graves in an area recently retaken from ISIS that could contain up to 400 bodies, an Iraqi official says. He didn't say when authorities will start exhuming the bodies from the mass graves. Iraqi forces have driven ISIS from nearly all the territory it once controlled. U.S.-backed Iraqi forces have driven the extremists from nearly all the territory they once controlled, with some fighting still underway near the western border with Syria. Hours later, Iraqi Defence Ministry announced capturing Romana area, saying the troops will head to the nearby town of Rawa.

Source: CBC News November 12, 2017 14:45 UTC