Islamic State Executes 120 Foreign Members Attempting to Return Home

SYRIA

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has published its findings on executions since the declaration of the Islamic State “Caliphate” on 28th June this year. It claims that eight women and four children are among the civilian casualties.

The total death toll of 1,878 includes at least 502 captured officers and soldiers from the Assad regime, and 81 fighters from other groups opposing Assad such as the al-Nusra Front. The figures cannot be independently verified.

The vast majority of those executed however, were civilians. Of the 1,175 killed by stoning, beheading and shooting in the provinces, 930 are from the al-Shaitaat tribe in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.

The tribe was fighting IS for control of two key oil fields in the area.

Finally, SOHR identifies 120 executions for ‘exceeding the limits of religion'; most of whom are thought to be foreign fighters attempting to return home.

The report ends by pointing out that the figures are certainly lower that the reality. The London-based group says that hundreds of people are still missing in IS jails, and dozens are missing from the battle for Kobani. About 1,000 men from the al-Shaitaat tribe remain unaccounted for.

Source http://basnews.com/en/news/2014/12/29/islamic-state-executes-120-foreign-members-attempting-to-return-home/