article_snippet.sent: The gruesome photographs are understood to have been taken near Tikrit in Iraq's Salah al-Din province, where members of the Iraqi Army and allied Shiite volunteer militias have had great success in forcing the terrorists to withdraw in recent weeks.
article_snippet.sent: The execution in Salah al-Din took place as Iraqi forensic teams working in the nearby, newly liberated city of Tikrit started exhuming bodies from mass graves believed to contain the bodies of up to 1,700 soldiers .
article_snippet.sent: ISIS' overran Saddam Hussein's hometown last June, capturing to 1,700 soldiers as to 1,700 soldiers were trying to flee Camp Speicher - an air base previously used by U.S. troops on the outskirt of Tikrit .
article_snippet.sent: The execution in Salah al-Din Salah al-Din took place as Iraqi forensic teams working in the nearby, newly liberated city of Tikrit started exhuming bodies from mass graves believed to contain the bodies of up to 1,700 soldiers brutally murdered by ISIS' last year.
article_snippet.sent: Kamil Amin from Iraq's Human Rights Ministry said the work started on Monday on eight locations inside Tikrit's complex of presidential palaces, where much of the killing took place.
article_snippet.sent: ISIS' overran Saddam Hussein's hometown last June, capturing around 1,700 soldiers as 1,700 soldiers were trying to flee Camp Speicher, an air base previously used by U.S. troops on the outskirt of TikritTikrit.