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‘We found nothing:’ Thousands of IS victims still missing

This photo provided by the family of Mohammed Nour Matar, shows Syrian journalist Mohammed Nour Matar filming during a vigil, in Raqqa, Syria, March 2013. Matar is among thousands of people believed to have been seized by the Islamic State, the extremist group that seized large parts of Syria and Iraq in 2014 where it set up a so-called Islamic Caliphate and brutalized the population for years. Three years after the territorial defeat of the IS, thousands of people seized by the extremist group are still missing, and accountability for their captors remains elusive. (The Family of Mohammed Nour Matar, via AP) FILE - A guard walks through the makeshift prison where Islamic State militants executed their prisoners in the basement of the main stadium in Raqqa, Syria, Sept. 5, 2019. The Washington-based Syria Justice and Accountability Center said in a report published Thursday April 21, 2022, that three years after IS was defeated, accountability for the perpetrators of its many crimes and justice for its victims remain elusive. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File) This photo provided by the family of Mohammed-Nour Mattar, shows Syrian journalist Mohammed Nour Matar interviewing a man while filming a documentary about primitive ways of refining oil, in the Raqqa countryside of Syria, August 2013. Matar is among thousands of people believed to have been seized by the Islamic State, the extremist group that seized large parts of Syria and Iraq in 2014 where it set up a so-called Islamic Caliphate and brutalized the population for years. Three years after the territorial defeat of the IS, thousands of people seized by the extremist group are still missing, and accountability for their captors remains elusive. (The Family of Mohammed Nour Matar, via AP) FILE - This frame grab from video, shows Syrian workers of the Civil Council of Raqqa digging for human remains at the site of a mass grave believed to contain the bodies of civilians and Islamic State militants, in Raqqa, Syria, July 14, 2019. The Washington-based Syria Justice and Accountability Center said in a report published Thursday April 21, 2022, said that approximately 6,000 bodies have been exhumed from dozens of mass graves dug by IS in northeast Syria, and retrieved from buildings destroyed by airstrikes of the U.S.-led coalition during the global campaign against IS. (AP Photo, File) FILE - Members of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces walk inside a prison built by Islamic State fighters at the stadium that was the site of Islamic State fighters' last stand in the city of Raqqa, Syria, Oct. 20, 2017. The Washington-based Syria Justice and Accountability Center said in a report published Thursday April 21, 2022, that three years after IS was defeated, accountability for the perpetrators of its many crimes and justice for its victims remain elusive. (AP Photo/Asmaa Waguih, File)