Mass graves containing more than 250 victims of Islamic State violence

Area of

detail

Baghdad

1

6

5

2

3

4

4 Mosul

Satellite images show likely burial site for victims of June 2014 Badoush Prison massacre. Up to 600 bodies could be packed into a roadside trench

 

5 Tikrit

Isis overran Camp Speicher airbase in June 2014, killing more than 1,500 army cadets and dumping the bodies in mass graves

 

6 Fallujah

In June 2016 the Iraqi army found a grave containing the bodies of 400 Iraqi soldiers killed during the two-year Isis occupation of the city

 

 

 

1 El-Horta

Hundreds of victims were found buried north-west of Raqqa, the de facto Isis capital

 

2 Abu Haman

Isis killed up to 1,000 members of the Shaitat tribe when they took territory near Deir ez-Zor in August 2014. Local residents found a grave containing 400 victims

 

3 Sinjar

Six sites containing more than 100 bodies found on Mount Sinjar where Yazidis tried to escape Isis advance in August 2014

 

 

 

 

Iraq

Syria

100 km

100 miles

Damascus

Turkey

Mass grave sites

Areas lost from Isis control since 2014

Isis control August 2016

El-Horta

4 Mosul

Satellite images show likely burial site for victims of June 2014 Badoush Prison massacre. Up to 600 bodies could be packed into a roadside trench

 

5 Tikrit

Isis overran Camp Speicher airbase in June 2014, killing more than 1,500 army cadets and dumping the bodies in mass graves

 

6 Fallujah

In June 2016 the Iraqi army found a grave containing the bodies of 400 Iraqi soldiers killed during the two-year Isis occupation of the city

 

 

 

1 El-Horta

Hundreds of victims were found buried north-west of Raqqa, the de facto Isis capital

 

2 Abu Haman

Isis killed up to 1,000 members of the Shaitat tribe when they took territory near Deir ez-Zor in August 2014. Local residents found a grave containing 400 victims

 

3 Sinjar

Six sites containing more than 100 bodies found on Mount Sinjar where Yazidis tried to escape Isis advance in August 2014

 

 

 

 

5

6

4

3

2

1

Jordan

Iran

Area of

detail

Iraq

Syria

100 km

100 miles

Tikrit

Fallujah

Baghdad

Mount Sinjar

Mosul

Abu Haman

Damascus

Turkey

Mass grave sites

Areas lost from Isis control since 2014

Isis control August 2016