Islamic State executes 15 of its own near Raqqa, Syria: monitor

A flag belonging to the Islamic State fighters is seen on a motorbike after forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad recaptured the historic city of Palmyra, in Homs Governorate in this handout picture provided by SANA on March 27, 2016.

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BEIRUT Islamic State has killed 15 of its members in the largest execution of the militant group's security services so far in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.


The killings followed the arrest of 35 members on Saturday in Raqqa, according to Britain-based Observatory, which monitors the five-year-old Syrian conflict through a network of sources on the ground.


The members were killed in connection with the assassination of senior Islamic State figure Abu Hija al-Tunisi, who died on Wednesday in an air strike, the Observatory said.


Reuters could not independently verify this information.


(Reporting by Lisa Barrington; editing by Jason Neely)



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Those idiots will never be smart enough to understand that beheadings are not a thing that helps solve the problem. Sure, they keep people in fear. However, history proves that all the reigns based on fear were doomed to fail since day one.

 

Exactly, they will never understand that, why? Because of their religion, they have been raised into that faith, it's funny that you could say that it's not their fate. I've seen videos with kids who stated they need to kill people who are not of the same religion with them and they didn't even seem to know how to walk properly yet. Religion has been the cause of conflicts over the last 2000 years, it was supposed to bring us together and spread peace, so far it only splat us apart and brought war.