Captured Isis fighters are insisting 'we were only cooks'

Thousands of civilians fleeing the Iraqi military’s push to evict Isis from its last major urban stronghold in Iraq now include hundreds of suspected fighters for the extremist group, dirty and dishevelled, who arrive at checkpoints claiming innocence and begging for mercy. While civilians from the stronghold, the city of Hawija, have sought safety in Kirkuk and elsewhere in Iraq’s Kurdish region, this weekend was the first time they came in large numbers with men of fighting age.
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