Iraqi paramilitary forces have uncovered two more mass graves containing the bodies of 140 civilians, including women and children, in an area home to the Yazidi religious minority. <br/><br/>In 2014, IS militant group killed thousands of Yazidis in Sinjar and kidnapped thousands of women and girls from the community to abuse them as sex slaves.<br/>'<br/>The Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary alliance said, it had found a mass grave with the bodies of 20 women and about 40 children in the village of Kabusi, south of Sinjar. <br/><br/>Elsewhere, in the Jazira residential complex, also south of Sinjar, 80 other bodies, mostly Yazidis, were discovered. <br/>'<br/>Kurdish fighters backed by the US-led coalition against IS captured Sinjar in November 2015 before Iraqi security forces took control of the region in October. <br/><br/>As government troops have advanced across Iraq they have uncovered dozens of mass graves holding hundreds of bodies in areas that fell under the IS militant group's brutal rule.<br/><br/><br/>
News On AIR | December 2, 2017 11:20 PM
Two mass graves found in Yazidi district of Iraq