pIraqi forces discovereda a mass grave at the abandoned Al-Bakara Base, a former Iraqi military outpost used by Islamic State militants to execute hundreds of Iraqi soldiers and civilians near Hawija in the Kirkuk province on November 11.ppRakan Said, the acting governor of Kirkuk, announceda the discovery of the mass grave just hours before Shiite militia leaders arrested Hassan al-Tikriti, the alleged IS commander responsible for the executionsa. Hassan al-Sufi, a local Popular Mobilization Unit commander in Kirkuk, told the media that al-Tikriti confessed his responsibility for the mass executions without providing any further details.