Research by the FBI, Qatar discovers the remains of 30 people believed to have been killed by ISIS in Syria

The remains of 30 people believed were killed by the militant Islamic State Group in a remote Syrian town in a research led by the Qatari research teams and the FBI, according to a statement issued by Qatar on Monday.

The Qatari Internal Security Forces said that the FBI has sought research, and that DNA tests are currently underway to determine people’s identities. The Qatari agency did not say that the US Intelligence and Security Agency is trying to find it. However, the Reuters news agencyQuoting two sources informed of the mission, they said they were looking for the remains of the American hostages who were killed by ISIS.

Dozens of foreigners, including relief workers and journalists, were killed by ISIS militants who took control of large areas of Syria and Iraq for half a decade and declared the so -called succession. The armed group lost most of its lands in late 2017 and declared its defeat in 2019.

Since then, dozens of graves and mass graves have been discovered in northern Syria that have remains, and the bodies of people have been kidnapped over the years.

American journalists James Foley and Stephen SutlovAs well as human workers Kayla Muller and Peter Casig They are among those who were killed by ISIS.

A Syrian source told Reuters that the initial search that he focused was in finding the residues of Casij, which was Behead In 2014 in northern Syria.

“We are grateful to all those who participate in the efforts made to make these deceased individuals specific and returned to their countries of origin and their loved ones,” the Kasij family said in a statement to Reuters.

John KanleyA British correspondence, who was kidnapped alongside Foley in 2012, and was last alive in a propaganda videos of the extremist group in 2016.

The research was conducted in the town of Dabiq, near the northern border in Syria with Türkiye.

ISIS released videos in 2014 and 2015 on the cuts of channels from Fuli, Sotleov, and Kasij. A similar video was released about two kidnapped Japanese relief workers who were beheaded by extremists in a similar way.

A convincing man who was killing and speaking English was determined on the videos later as Mohamed Emazi, a British citizen of Kuwaiti origin from London, known as “Jihad John”. killing In November 2015 in the US and British drone strike.

The collective graves were also found in the areas he had previously controlled by Syrian President Bashar al -Assad, who was I overthrew the lightning rebellion Last December, his family’s rule ended half a century. For years, Assad used their security agencies and notorious intelligence to take strict measures against dissidents, and many who have disappeared.

American journalist Austin Tays, In 2012 she was kidnapped in a disputed area in western Syria, which is among the most prominent missing cases. The last time after weeks was seen, and showed him to walk by armed men. The US administration said in December he was still believed to be alive, although Washington has confessed at the time that it had no direct evidence of TICE’s luxury.

Washington confirmed for years that Tays had been kept by the Syrian authorities now.

In an interview with “CBS Mornings” in December, TICE’s parents said they had not seen video evidence that he is alive, and they did not know his place.

“We have not seen … video evidence since the first video that appeared shortly after he took it, but there was confirmation from the people who had eyes on it, and even to some extent,” said Mark Tays. “Therefore, again, we are confident that he is alive and knows that he is ready to return home.”

In 2021, the United Nations estimated that more than 130,000 Syrians had been transferred and disappeared during the uprising that started in 2011 and sent to a 13 -year civil war.