Rounded up to be killed: ISIS militants seize dozens of Iraqi soldiers before driving them to the desert to be shot
Isis militants with captured Iraqi soldiers wearing plain clothes after taking over a base in Tikrit, Iraq
U.S. aircraft carrier and guided-missile destroyers sent to the Persian Gulf
- Iranian special forces are also streaming in to bolster Baghdad's defences
- Sunni Muslims are returning to Mosul after ISIS 'liberation' of the city
- Those returning seem mainly to be conservative Muslims
- Shiite Muslims are staying away and are going to camps in Kurdish areas
Islamist militants in Iraq have boasted of slaughtering dozens of Iraqi soldiers captured in the fighting which has consumed the country in recent days.
Pictures posted on a militant website appear to show masked fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) forcing captives to lie down in a shallow ditch.
Further photos appear to show the bodies of the men soaked in blood after being shot.
Isis militants with captured Iraqi soldiers wearing plain clothes after taking over a base in Tikrit, Iraq
