An image grab taken from a propaganda video uploaded on June 11, 2014 by jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) allegedly shows ISIL militants gathering at an undisclosed location in Iraq's Nineveh province. (AFP Photo)
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has
consistently tracked violence on both sides of the three-year-old Syrian civil
war have said that around 700 members of the al-Sheitaat tribe, from the Deir
al-Zor province, have been executed and that many of them were beheaded by IS
jihadists.The Islamic State group (IS) has executed 700 people from a Syrian
tribe it has been battling in eastern Syria over the past two weeks, the
majority of whom were civilians, a Syrian monitoring group said Saturday.
