President Fuad Masoum announced that the members of the terror group would be hanged for their part in the massacre in June 2014 near the central city of Tikrit.

It saw thousands of soldiers based at Camp Speicher being taken prisoner by the militants as they surged across northern Iraq as they tried to conquer the country in 2014.

They were then rounded up by ISIS and put on trucks being told that they would be going home to their families.

However, the fanatics instead took them to a riverbank where they were lined up and shot dead at close range before being buried in mass graves.

President Masum approved the executions after footage of the massacre of the showing the brutal murders.

However human rights activists have criticised the movve saying the defendants only confessed to their crimes as they were tortured and that they did not have access to the correct legal representation.

It comes after the UN also expressed concerns at Iraq`s attempts to speed up the appeals process for people on death row.

The bodies of the of the 1,700 massarced soldiers were discovered last year as Iraqi forensic teams described how they wept when they began to excavate the graves.

For almost 10 months, their devastated families have been left wondering what became of their sons and brothers who had been marched through Tikrit, once Saddam Hussein`s stronghold of support.

The only clues they had were videos posted by the jihadists on social media sites, showing them being machine gunned down in their hundreds.

Iraqi forces have made steady progress against the extremists in recent months, and Mosul, Iraq`s second largest city, is the group`s last remaining urban stronghold in the country.

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