No Escape From Daesh Barbarism: Islamist Terrorists Desecrate Syrian Cemetery

Daesh terrorists have desecrated a cemetery in the town of Duma, around 20km north-east of the Syrian capital Damascus, local residents told Sputnik.

Daesh militants attacked the cemetery after deciding that the tombstones which stand there with dates and names of the deceased are idols, and that local people who come to remember their loved ones are contravening Daesh doctrine by "worshipping" these idols.

Daesh arrived at the cemetery with bulldozers and desecrated the cemetery, leaving the upset localsunable to find their deceased friends and relatives.

"'The Commission for the Destruction of Tombs' has demolished the tombs of revered clerics, as well as the tombs of these people's relatives. The terrorists think that they are fighting idolatry," a local told Sputnik.

The local added that members of the Daesh terror group bury their own dead in mass graves, or simply throw their corpse onto the street. 

Earlier this month the Syrian Air Force reported it carried out a series of airstrikes on the Jabhat al-Nusra [Nusra Front] and Jaysh al-Islam Islamist terror groups near the cities of Duma and neighboring Harasta, which are located approximately 20km northeast of the Syrian capital Damascus.

On Thursday the Syrian army and allied militias reported the retaking of several farms on the outskirts of Harasta from Islamist terrorists.

"In the past 24 hours, our forces eliminated terrorists entrenched near Harasta, and took over several farms in its outskirts. The offensive is ongoing amid powerful fire support. Militants of the Jaysh al-Islam group are resisting fiercely," the source said.