1,500 Unmarked Graves Found at Kirkuk Site
The U.S. military has found an estimated 1,500 unmarked graves in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, though it was uncertain whose remains they contain.
U.S. military officials surveyed the site near a military base and industrial park. Members of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan -- one of two main political groups in the northern Kurdish autonomous region -- reportedly exhumed one body.
The graves, marked only by weeds and small mounds of dirt, are in neat rows stretching several hundred yards across a parched landscape.
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