) ISIS Militants Release Shocking Photos of Iraq 'Mass Execution



 Written : Mohamed Abdel fattah

Jun 16, 2014

 The Sunni militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) has released a series of images purporting to show the mass executions of scores of Shi'ite Iraqi soldiers.

ISIS on Friday a tweet on what was claimed to be an Twitter account that its members killed at least 1,700 Shiites and posted pictures show masked fighters of ISIL, loading the captives onto flatbed trucks before forcing them to lie face-down in a shallow ditch with their arms tied behind their backs.

CNN cannot independently confirm the authenticity of the images purportedly posted by ISIS.

The photos followed the State Department's announcement Sunday that it had relocated additional security personnel to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, while temporarily evacuating some staff members to more stable consulates or to neighboring Jordan.

The ISIL and associated Sunni rebel forces have taken control of large territories in Iraq in the last week, plunging the country into crisis and increasingly splitting communities along sectarian lines

ISIS, an al Qaeda splinter group, wants to establish a caliphate, or Islamic state, that would stretch from Iraq into northern Syria.

US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that the ISIL fighters' claim of killing the Iraqi troops "is horrifying and a true depiction of the bloodlust that those terrorists represent".

She added that a claim that 1,700 were killed could not be confirmed by the U.S.

On Monday, rebels captured the strategic town of Tal Afar, close to the Syrian border, after a long and bloody offensive against Iraqi forces.

ISIL has vowed to take the battle to Baghdad and cities farther south housing revered Shiite shrines.

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