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May 24, 2017

Iraqi Military Opens Probe into Human Rights Abuses by Its Troops
 
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In news on Iraq, the U.S.-backed Iraqi military is opening an
investigation into allegations of human rights violations committed by
its troops fighting ISIS in Mosul. An Iraqi photographer who embedded
with an elite unit of the Iraqi military has accused the forces of
torturing and raping ISIS suspects in an article published by the German
newspaper Der Spiegel. This comes as Airwars says airstrikes carried out
by the U.S. or Iraqi Air Force reportedly killed dozens of civilians in
the Shifa neighborhood of Mosul on Sunday and Monday.


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