The Guardian :
An Islamic State militant executed his mother in public in the Syrian city of Raqqa because she had encouraged him to leave the group, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The woman in her 40s had warned her son that a US-backed alliance would wipe out ISIS and had encouraged him to leave the city with her.
She was detained after he informed the group of her comments, according to the British-based Observatory, which monitored the war through a network of sources on the ground.
Citing local sources, the Observatory said that the 20-year-old man killed 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.
ISIS, which controls large swaths of Syria and Iraq, has killed hundreds of people it has accused of working with its enemies or breaching of its ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam.
The Observatory reported on 29 December that ISIS had killed more than 2,000 Syrian civilians in the 18 months since it declared a “Caliphate” in the territory it controls in Syria and Iraq. They included people killed on the grounds of homosexuality, practising magic and apostasy.
It was not possible to independently verify the latest report.
An Islamic State militant executed his mother in public in the Syrian city of Raqqa because she had encouraged him to leave the group, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The woman in her 40s had warned her son that a US-backed alliance would wipe out ISIS and had encouraged him to leave the city with her.
She was detained after he informed the group of her comments, according to the British-based Observatory, which monitored the war through a network of sources on the ground.
Citing local sources, the Observatory said that the 20-year-old man killed 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.
ISIS, which controls large swaths of Syria and Iraq, has killed hundreds of people it has accused of working with its enemies or breaching of its ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam.
The Observatory reported on 29 December that ISIS had killed more than 2,000 Syrian civilians in the 18 months since it declared a “Caliphate” in the territory it controls in Syria and Iraq. They included people killed on the grounds of homosexuality, practising magic and apostasy.
It was not possible to independently verify the latest report.
