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: the Islamic State group capture by several factions led by the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front underscores the growing power of extremist groups in Syria, who now control about half the country.
article_snippet: More than 220,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict, which began with an Arab Spring uprising in March 2011 and turned into an insurgency following a brutal military crackdown.