Wednesday, August 31, 2016 Probe uncovers 72 Islamic State mass gravesAn Iraqi security forces forensic team works at the site of a mass grave believed to contain the bodies of Iraqi civilians, security forces and members of their families, including women and children, killed by Islamic State group militants at the stadium area in Ramadi, Iraq. They are a fraction of the mass graves Islamic State extremists have scattered across Iraq and Syria. The Islamic State group targeted the Yazidis for slaughter because it considers them infidels. Hundreds of mass graves are believed to be in areas that can only be explored when fighting stops. “This is a drop in an ocean of mass graves expected to be discovered in the future in Syria,” said Awad.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald August 31, 2016 00:00 UTC