Takfiri IS blows 80-year-old church in Syria

06 April, 2015 15:37

The Notorious terrorists of Islamic State aka Daesh blew up an 80-year-old church in Syria’s northeastern province of Hassaka on Easter Sunday.

Syrian state run News Agency SANA not reported any casualties in the attack of Takfiri IS, said the terrorists had planted explosives inside the Church of the Virgin Mary in Tel Nasri, an Assyrian village in an area where Christian and Kurdish militia have been battling Islamic State.

The Saudi-Israeli funded terrorist group IS, which controls swathes of Syria and Iraq, espouses a fiercely purist school of Sunni Islam, deeming many other Muslims to be heretics. Its fighters have destroyed Shia and Sufi religious sites and also attacked churches.

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