Homs: Mass Grave of Victims Killed by ISIL Discovered by Syrian Army Near Palmyra

The sources said that the mass grave contained the bodies of both civilians, including children and women, and also the Syrian army troops.

“The bodies belonged to the residents of al-Jahezieh in al-Ameriya region near Palmyra who had been massacred by the ISIL more than four years ago,” a security source said.

He noted that according the primary tests signs of torture and bullets were found from the victims’ bodies.

In a relevant development on Tuesday, the bodies of over 800 civilians killed in the US-led coalition airstrikes and ISIL attacks were found in a mass grave in Raqqa.

The media activists disclosed that the new mass grave has been discovered in the village of al-Fakhikheh South of the city of Raqqa.

They underlined that between 600 to 800 corpses have been retrieved from the mass grave, and said that the newly-discovered mass grave was the 14th of its kind found in Raqqa City and its outskirts.

This is while Raqqa’s civilian team also discovered more bodies of civilians, who were killed in the US-led coalition’s airstrikes on Raqqa City, from under the debris of the destroyed buildings in districts of al-Tosayeh, Nazleh Shahadeh and al-Haramieh in Raqqa City.

A year after the US and its allies earned control over the Raqqa city, the dead bodies of Syrian civilians are still retrieved from mass graves and debris in Raqqa province.