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| Syria: Al Qaeda-led religious court executes 10 in Aleppo |
| 2015-08-01 |
| [HINDUSTANTIMES] At least 10 people were executed on Saturday in Syria's Aleppo city on the orders of a religious court dominated by al Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The monitor said two of the executed were accused of adultery, with the rest accused of collaboration with the Syrian government. The executions, in the eastern Aleppo neighbourhood of Shaar, were ordered by a religious court that includes several conservative rebel groups but is dominated by al-Nusra Front. All 10 men were rubbed out, the Observatory said. Islamic courts have been set up in many towns and villages in Syria that have been wrestled out of government forces' control by Islamist hard boyz or jihadist groups. Al-Nusra has also carried out summary executions of government troops in areas captured by it. |
| Posted by:Fred |