Jihadi group’s social media sites posted photographs of the spectacular mansion
A room in one of the luxurious buildings occupied by the IS.
Riyadh: The Islamic State leaders claim to be living in luxury in a vast mansion seized from a billionaire Arab sheikh. The jihadi group’s social media sites posted photographs of the spectacular mansion, under the headline: ‘A castle for the tyrants of Qatar in Palmyra’. Snapshots show sprawling gardens surrounding the mansion, in the heart of the Syrian desert.
It is claimed that the real owners the Qatari royal family abandoned the villa when IS closed in. The leaders of the regime, which took over nearby Palmyra in May, are now said to have set up headquarters in the luxury villa, amid gold-leaf columns and plush furnishings.
( Source : agencies )
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