Journalists captured the moment when a hardened Iraqi soldier burst into tears beside the remains of a tiny girl killed by terrorists of the "Islamic state".

Pictures posted by Daily Maily.

The body was found in a mass grave where there were about 24 dead, mostly children, in Mosul, after the area of ??

the besieged city was captured by a terrorist group.

In shocking photographs, you can see an unknown boy wrapped in a blanket, and a soldier, heartbroken near the burial place.

Recall that in the fall of 2016, the Iraqi army launched an operation to release militants from the city of Mosul, which is considered to be the stronghold of IGIL in Iraq.

As reported by the "Observer", on March 1, the leader of IGIL Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced the defeat of his supporters in Iraq.