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Once promised paradise, ISIS fighters end up in mass graves

Highlights Flies buzz around human remains poking through the dusty earth in the Iraqi town of Dhuluiyah. "They should have ended up in the stomachs of stray dogs," local police officer Mohammed al-Juburi told AFP. A similar fate befell IS members in the city of Mosul, the group's largest urban stronghold in Iraq that it lost in July. The Islamic State group+ once drew recruits from near and far with promises of paradise but now bodies of jihadists lie in mass graves or at the mercy of wild dogs as its "caliphate" collapses. Flies buzz around human remains poking through the dusty earth in the Iraqi town of Dhuluiyah, 90 kilometres (55 miles) north of Baghdad, at a hastily-dug pit containing the bodies of dozens of IS fighters killed in 2015. "They should have ended up in the stomachs of stray dogs," local police officer Mohammed al-Juburi told AFP. "We buried them here not out of love but because we wanted to avoid diseases...

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To write on general topics and specially on films;THE BLOGS ARE DEDICATED TO MY PARENTS:SHRI M.B.L.NIGAM(January 7,1917-March 17,2005) and SMT.SHANNO DEVI NIGAM(November 23,1922-January24,1983)