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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Largest ISIS mass grave yet found outside Syria’s Raqqa
2019-02-22
[Rudaw] Two feet deep, below a plot of farmland outside the Syrian city of Raqqa, lies a large and deadly legacy of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group: a mass grave holding an estimated 3,500 people.

First responders learned of the burial site in the al-Fukheikha agricultural suburb last month, more than a year after US-backed forces captured Raqqa from IS and as they closed in on the group’s final redoubt of Baghouz further south.
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