The remains of 123 victims of one of the worst massacres in Iraq by the jihadist group Islamic State have been exhumed from a mass grave near Mosul. DNA samples will be compared with those collected from possible relatives in an attempt to identify them. The victims were among more than 600 mostly Shia Muslim inmates at Badoush prison who were killed by IS in 2014. IS militants drove them to a ravine and shot them dead after attacking the prison and freeing their fellow Sunnis. The group once controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of land stretching from eastern Iraq to western Syria and imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people.(BBC)…[+]