– Damascus The Kurdish government in northeastern Syria and the Syrian government have both urged a number of foreign groups, most notably Human Rights Watch, to look into the fate of thousands of ISIS casualties, including activists, journalists, and aid workers.
The organization dominated large areas in Syria and Iraq, adjacent to the summer of 2014, before it was gradually expelled.
Since 2011, Syria has seen a terrible conflict that has claimed the lives of nearly 500,000 people, severely damaged its infrastructure and productive sectors, and caused the displacement of millions of people both inside and outside the nation.
And Friday, the Syrian authorities announced the finding of a mass grave near the ancient city of Palmyra in the center of the country, 12 bodies were recovered, and it is likely that the Islamic State was executed during its control of the region.
The group controlled Palmyra in the Homs Governorate twice between May 2015 and March 2017 before the Syrian army was able to drive it out with the help of its ally Russia.
The group also killed a number of city residents while destroying other archaeological sites.
The official Syrian News Agency “SANA” reported that the competent authorities “found the remains of a number of civilian and military martyrs as part of a mass grave in the vicinity of the archaeological theater in the city of Palmyra, the ISIS terrorists executed them during their control of the city.
“According to SANA, 12 bodies were retrieved from the cemetery and taken to hospitals where DNA examinations were carried out in order to determine the identities of the deceased.
The extreme fighters demolished some of the items on the United Nations Educational, Cultural, and Science Organization’s list while in control of the city (UNESCO). They also carried out executions, the most prominent of which was the director of antiquities in the city, Khaled Al -Asaad, 82.
Several mass graves have been discovered during the past few years in regions that used to be under the authority of the terrorist group, most notably in the Syrian city of Raqqa and the Deir Ezzor Governorate (east).
In addition to altering Syria’s present and endangering its people’s future throughout the course of ten years of conflict, old archaeological features were also affected, and a priceless symbolic heritage was lost forever.
In 2015, Palmyra, which has Roman ruins and was included to the World Heritage List by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), was overrun by the Islamic State.
Just as it happened in other regions of Syria and Iraq, which included the organization for what he called the “Caliphate State”, many monuments and buildings were publicly destroyed as furniture, while the organization has made a secret from selling other pieces illegally.
In August of the same year, the organization executed the director of antiquities, Khaled Al -Asaad, who was 82 years old and hung his body on an archaeological column.
A large endeavour to repair the ravages of the Syrian city of Palmyra, which inflicted significant harm on ISIS fighters, included a group of Italian sculptors.
fresh mass graves close to Palmyra, a historic city
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