Syria still finding dead bodies 2 years after IS fall

RAQQA, Syria: The neighbors reported a foul smell coming from the house next door. The house, which the Islamic State (IS) group had used as a school for its “cubs,” had been untouched ever since the militants were chased out of the Syrian city two years ago.

Weeds grew around an abandoned car in its courtyard. Even before the first responders felt the soft ground of the courtyard, they knew what was underneath: the latest mass grave in Raqqa, the former capital of the IS’ self-declared “caliphate.”