ISLAMIC STATE MASS EXECUTION SITE DISCOVERED NEAR MOSUL: It appears the victims were detainees who were tortured and beheaded.

A mass grave of 100 headless bodies has been found south of Mosul in a town that was recently recaptured from Islamic State, the Iraqi Army said on Monday. The grave was found in the grounds of the agricultural college in Hammam al-Alil, 15 kilometres south of Mosul, according to a statement from the army’s military information office. State television said the victims appeared to have been killed recently and were likely to have been detainees who had been held and tortured by Islamic State.