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Ribal Al-Assad condemns beheading of tribesman in Syria

Tuesday, 5 August 2014

Jihadists behead tribesmen in Syria

DAILY STAR

Islamic State jihadists beheaded three fighters from a tribe that is battling the extremist group in eastern Syria, a monitor said on Tuesday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the group had decapitated the men and put their heads on display in Jerthe a day after seizing the town in Deir Ezzor province.

The fighters are from the Shaitat tribe, which has been clashing with the Islamic State for nearly a week in parts of the oil-rich province, after a deal between the two sides collapsed.

The IS has captured most of Deir Ezzor and declared it to be part of its "caliphate," along with large swathes of territory it has captured across the border in Iraq.

The Observatory said Syrian regime planes carried out raids against the IS in Jerthe and near the town of Baseera, killing five members of the group on Tuesday.

Elsewhere, the monitoring group also said the toll in regime air raids around the capital on Sunday night had risen to 64.

The raids killed 38 people, among them six children, in Kfar Batna east of Damascus, and 26 people, including five children, in Douma, northeast of the capital.

Both strikes hit markets, the Britain-based group said.

More than 170,000 people have been killed in Syria since the country's conflict began in March 2011.

ODFS Director, Ribal Al-Assad said:

"Yet again I am appalled to hear of further barbarity committed by Islamist militants in Syria, these poor men brutally murdered defending their homes and community. This further shows how these extremists will kill anyone who does not share their perverted ideology.

These acts serve as a reminder; these rebels will stop at nothing to achieve their goal of an Islamic Caliphate in Syria - unfortunately with every day that passes with the International Community failing to act, these extremists will continue to make more gain and kill more innocent people.

We cannot allow them to succeed; not only would it spell disaster for the region but the entire free world.

We could already seeing this in the neighbouring countries of Iraq and Lebanon with the atrocities being committed there.

More needs to be done to stop these extremists, how many more people have to die before something is done?"

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