Islamic State brutality comes to light after military advance

Islamic State had used the town's agricultural college as "a killing field" for hundreds of people in the days before the Iraqi government advance, Ahmed said.
"They would torture them inside and then take them out of the neighborhood and either shoot them or slit their throats."

The military says its forces at the complex have discovered the decapitated corpses of at least 100 civilians.
HIDING
The jail opposite Ahmed's house was once the home of an army officer who fled Islamic State's blitz across a third of Iraq's territory in 2014. Its walls are covered in soot from a fire apparently set by fleeing fighters, but metal cages only slightly larger than an adult male are still intact.
Ahmed, who learned English when U.S. forces occupied Iraq for nine years after toppling Saddam Hussein in 2003, was delighted to speak to a foreign reporter after two years during which he feared he would be killed for using English.
"We have been living in hell, like zombies," he said.


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