KIRKUK, Iraq — Iraqi security forces have found mass graves in an area recently retaken from the Islamic State group that could contain up to 400 bodies, an Iraqi official said Sunday. The bodies of civilians and security forces were found in an abandoned base near Hawija, a northern town retaken in early October, Kirkuk governor Rakan Saed said. He didn’t say when authorities will start exhuming the bodies from the mass graves. Iraqi forces have driven ISIL from nearly all the territory it once controlled. Hours later, Iraqi Defence Ministry announced capturing Romana area, saying the troops will head to nearby town of Rawa.

Source: National Post November 13, 2017 03:11 UTC