article_snippet: Kneeling: ISIS' militants listen to a senior commanda give ISIS militants
article_snippet: While hardened militants with experience of warfare and knowledge of battlefield strategy may be of use to ISIS', the vast majority of new recruits - especially teenagers and foreign fighters - are used as little more than cannon fodder during an assault or for suicide bomb attacks.
article_snippet: Others are kept far from the frontline of fighting in the area outside Raqqa city and given mundane jobs such as guards or toilet cleaners that are a far cry from propaganda images portraying ISIS' membership as a life of glory and honour.
article_snippet: Militants fighting for the Islamic State have now turned Militants fighting for the Islamic State savagery on the dead, tearing down graves and smashing tombs at a cemetery in Syria.
article_snippet: Not content with the rape and massacre of the estimated four million brutally oppressed people living under the terror group's control in  Syria and Iraq, ISIS jihadis are now victimising the dead.
article_snippet: Claiming gravestones and tombs are a form of veneration of the dead and only distract from the worship of Allah, the heavily-armed, camouflage-wearing militants are seen happily reducing a cemetery in Syria to piles of rubble.
article_snippet: Having parked their motorcycles at the gates of the graveyard, Militants fighting for the Islamic State are seen inside pulling over tombstones while sympathisers stand alongside Militants fighting for the Islamic State taking photographs.