Kurdish fighters have uncovered two mass graves outside Sinjar, northern Iraq, that was ruled by the Islamic State for more than a year before the extremists were driven out last week.
Iraqi Kurdish militias battling to take back Sinjar from ISIS extremists raised a Kurdish flag and fired off celebratory gunfire in the center of town Friday
Kurdish fighters advanced on the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, pushing into the contested, refugee-packed Sinjar mountains and gaining ground in the embattled Syrian border town of Kobani after heavy clashes.