Al-Hud was freed from ISIS earlier this month, as part of the offensive to retake Mosul, but the bodies have yet to be documented or exhumed. Iraqi soldiers let two BuzzFeed News journalists view only the Kurdish fighter’s grave, citing the risk of improvised explosive devices hidden further along the road. The cluster of mass graves outside the small village are some of the first grim signs of the atrocities soldiers expect to uncover as they push deeper into ISIS’s most important stronghold. ‚Probably there are more – we just haven’t seen them yet,‘ said Abdulsalam Bayati, an Iraqi soldier who drove an armored Humvee to the grave on Friday.“ (Mike Giglio: „Mass Graves On The Road To Mosul Show The Horrors That Lie Ahead“)