Islamic State Fighters Are Ending Up In Mass Graves

An Iraqi man inspects the site of a mass grave of Islamic State (IS) fighters in Dhuluiyah, north of Baghdad

AFP: Once promised paradise, IS fighters end up in mass graves

The Islamic State group once drew recruits from near and far with promises of paradise but now bodies of jihadists lie in mass graves or at the mercy of wild dogs as its "caliphate" collapses.

Flies buzz around human remains poking through the dusty earth in the Iraqi town of Dhuluiyah, 90 kilometres (55 miles) north of Baghdad, at a hastily dug pit containing the bodies of dozens of IS fighters killed in 2015.

"They should have ended up in the stomachs of stray dogs," local police officer Mohammed al-Juburi told AFP.

"We buried them here not out of love but because we wanted to avoid diseases."

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WNU Editor: A fitting end. But personally I would have just cremated their bodies.

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