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Daesh claims execution-style killing of Syrian journalists

Sunday, 26 June 2016 5:41 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 26 June 2016 5:41 PM ]

The photo purports to show five journalists who were abducted by the Takfiri Daesh terrorists in Syria’s Dayr al-Zawr in October 2015. The terrorists claimed the execution-style killing of the five people on June 26, 2016.

The Daesh Takfiri terrorists claimed responsibility Sunday for the execution-style killing of five Syrian journalists they kidnapped in Dayr al-Zawr in October 2015.

The terrorist group published a video in which the victims, who were all from Dayr al-Zawr, are shown.

The people were abducted in the city and killed between November and December last year, said the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

"The video was only published now because IS (Daesh), who are losing ground in Syria, want to send a message that they are still strong," said Rami Abdel Rahman, the chief of the observatory. One of the victims had worked with the group.

Daesh terrorists, who have declared the northern city of Raqqah as their de facto capital in Syria, had previously claimed the killing of several citizen journalists working in a furtive manner in areas under the control of Daesh, including Raqqah.

The Takfiri terrorists have been dealt major blows over the past few weeks in a number of fronts across Syria.

The city of Aleppo in northwestern Syria has been a flash point over the past months with fierce clashes going on between Syrian forces and the terrorists, who have resorted to kidnappings to cover up their defeats.

The observatory said on June 24 that the terrorists kidnapped 900 people from a Kurdish city in the northeast of Aleppo province. The abductees were spirited away from 15 villages and a township.

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