A Syrian official source said that a Qatari research team found, accompanied by an American team and the Syrian public security, the remains of 3 people in the countryside of Aleppo, noting that it is believed that among the people who found their remains of American journalist Austin Tays.
The same source said that a former element in ISIS guided the search teams to the burial of the bodies that were found, noting that the remains of the United States were transferred to conduct a DNA examination to determine their identities.
ISIS took vast areas of Syria and Iraq between 2014 and 2017.
The Qatari mission began at a time when US President Donald Trump is preparing to visit Doha, Saudi Arabia and the UAE this week.
The Syrian source said that the mission initially focused on searching for the remains of the relief worker Peter Caceg, who beheaded the Islamic State in Dabiq in northern Syria in 2014.
The two American journalists James Foley and Stephen Sutloff were among the other Western hostages killed by ISIS, and their death was confirmed in 2014.
The American relief worker, Kayla Muller, was killed in the captivity of ISIS.
