Soldier shown grinning over dead Iraqi

The photo’s release comes just one day after Specialist Jeremy Sivits was given a year in military detention and a bad conduct discharge – after pleading guilty to the abuse of detainees.

As well, the US military is fighting claims that at least 40 people killed in a desert town near the Syrian border were at a wedding party. The military insists that the target was “a suspected foreign fighter safe house”.

The latest photo features Specialist Sabrina Harman, 26, with the body of an Iraqi, who other soldiers have said died during interrogation at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.