Reports: 150 Bodies Found In Iraq Mass Grave

The bodies of 150 members of an Iraqi Sunni tribe opposed to Islamic State (IS) have reportedly been found in a mass grave.

The Reuters news agency quoted a security official saying 150 men from the Albu Nimr tribe had been taken from their villages near Ramadi on Wednesday night and then killed.

There are claims of a separate incident in which 70 more members of the Albu Nimr tribe were found dead in another mass grave near the city of Hit.

Those killed near Hit are believed to have been members of the police and an anti-IS militia called Sahwa, or Awakening.

A witness was quoted as saying: "Early this morning we found those corpses and we have been told by some Islamic State militants that 'those people are from Sahwa, who fought your brothers the Islamic State, and this is the punishment of anybody fighting Islamic State'."

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1. Gallery: Kurds Celebrate Peshmerga's Kobani Mission

   Air strikes have been taking place ahead of the peshmerga's arrival to take part in the battle for Kobani

2. A series of explosions took place in Kobani on Wednesday morning

5. A Turkish army vehicle is seen in the foreground as smoke rises from Kobani following the air strikes

6. A Kurdish boy in Turkey welcomes the peshmerga with a US and Kurdistan flag painted face

7. Kurdish people in Turkey welcome fellow Kurdish fighters from Iraq

8. A peshmerga fighter makes the V for victory sign as their convoy arrives at the Habur crossing along the Turkey-Iraq border

9. The peshmerga appeared upbeat after receiving the authority of both Turkey and Iraq to travel to the under seige town

10. Crowds along the Kurdish section of the road lined the route to wish them well

11. About 150 peshmerga entered Turkey from Iraq, where they were due to travel on to Syria

12. A senior official in the Kurdistan Democratic Party said that a number of others were due to fly to Turkey and then travel on overland

13. The fighters were expected to reach Kobani late on Tuesday night

14. Many in Arbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, celebrated late into the night

15. Kurdistan's Minister of Peshmerga, Mustafa Sayyid Qader, said there was no limit on how long the forces would remain in Kobani

16. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had said earlier that airstrikes alone would not be enough to push back the insurgents

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1. Gallery: Shia Militia Rescue Villagers From IS In Iraq

   Members of a Shia militia prepare to take part in a battle to liberate the town of Jurf al Sakhar, south of Baghdad, from militants fighting for Islamic State, who hold the area

2. The militia members were fighting alongside Iraqi government forces

3. The battle to recapture Jurf al Sakhar took months of fighting

4. The IS militants had occupied the area after moving rapidly across Iraq from their stronghold in Syria

5. Villagers living in the area had to wave white flags to make sure they were not fired on as they tried to escape the occupied area

6. They were allowed to leave the militant-held areas if they surrendered to the army to be transported to safe areas

7. Dozens made their way across the front line to reach safety

8. They were corralled and searched to make sure they were not carrying weapons

9. This man was searched as he crossed no man's land

10. Once the fighters were sure they were not combatants, they were allowed to travel elsewhere

11. The men were ordered to sit separately while the checks were made

12. Some sufffered an anxious time as they waited to see what would happen next

13. Government forces and the militia made it into Jurf al Sakhar, about 40 miles south of the capital, on Saturday, but took several more days to gain complete control

14. It represents a significant victory for Iraqi forces, which had been pushed back into retreat by IS. Officials said 67 members of the Iraqi security forces and Shia militias and 300 IS fighters were killed in the fighting

15. This man is taking an IS flag down from a tower and replacing it with an Iraqi flag. There were reports (Reuters) that some of the militia took revenge on the captured IS fighters, attacking them

16. Shia fighters pose with a captured black IS flag. Some reported that innocent people had been killed by IS during the occupation. The danger is not over - a suicide bomber in Jurf al Sakhar killed 27 militia men on Monday

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