Area of
detail
Baghdad
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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
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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