A handicapped man walks past text on a wall reading that the house belongs to Islamic State militants in Qayyara, Iraq, December 6, 2016. Picture taken December 6, 2016. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - "My dear family, please forgive me," reads the handwritten letter discarded in the dusty halls of an Islamic State training compound in eastern Mosul.
"Don't be sad and don't wear the black clothes (of mourning). I asked to get married and you did not marry me off. So, by God, I will marry the 72 virgins in paradise."
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