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Group: Islamic militants killed 770 Iraqi troops

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Published September 3, 2014 6:04pm ET
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Group: Islamic militants killed 770 Iraqi troops
This combination of satellite images made on Sept. 29, 2013 by CNES, left, and on June 16, 2014 by DigitalGlobe, and annotated by Human Rights Watch, shows the Salahuddin palace at the presidential palace compound in Tikrit, Iraq, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad. Human Rights Watch, a leading international watchdog, says the darker area within the open field marked by the red rectangle in the photo at right indicates blood stains from a mass killing at the palace. The group said Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014, that new evidence, including these satellite images, indicates the Islamic State fighters killed far more men after they captured the city of Tikrit than what was initially reported. (AP Photo/Human Rights Watch, CNES and DigitalGlobe) | Uncredited

BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants from the Islamic State group carried out a mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers captured when the extremists overran a military base north of Baghdad in June, a leading international watchdog said Wednesday.

The incident at Camp Speicher, an air base that previously served as a U.S. military facility, was one of the worst atrocities perpetrated by the Islamic State group as it seized large swaths of northern and western Iraq.

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