Islamic State member executes his mother in Syria: monitor

The woman in her 40s had warned her son that a US-backed alliance would wipe out Islamic State


Reuters January 08, 2016
PHOTO: AFP

BEIRUT: An Islamic State militant executed his mother in public in the Syrian city of Raqqa because she had encouraged him to leave the group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday.

The woman in her 40s had warned her son that a US-backed alliance would wipe out Islamic State and had encouraged him to leave the city with her.

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She was detained after he informed the group of her comments, according to the British-based Observatory, which monitors the war through a network of sources on the ground.

Citing local sources, the Observatory said the 20-year-old man executed his mother on Wednesday near the post office building where she worked in front of hundreds of people in Raqqa, a main base of operations for the group in Syria.

The Islamic State group, which controls wide areas of Syria and Iraq, has executed hundreds of people it has accused of working with its enemies or breaching of its ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam.

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The Observatory reported on December 29 that Islamic State had executed more than 2,000 Syrian civilians in the 18 months since it declared its "caliphate" over the territory it controls in Syria and Iraq. They included people killed on the grounds of homosexuality, practicing magic and apostasy.

It was not possible to independently verify the latest report.

COMMENTS (4)

Zahid | 8 years ago | Reply Arabs seem paralyzed. They have barely been able to function for a long time now they are immobile. What kind of an imbecile kills his own mother. The only person who can pray for him. Can no one in whole of Arabia form a coalition and get rid of this weird cult? Arab should do better than ask us to help them. Really saddened. I wish I had never read this.
Sid | 8 years ago | Reply How can someone be driven to this madness and blindness ? Seems like devil has to do nothing anymore, we humans are doing far more worse.
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