The 102-year-old was rubbed out in his sleep, with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
(ISIL) also killing his son, his grandson, his great-granddaughter and her mother, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
All the victims were Alawites, members of the same offshoot of Shiite Islam as Syria's
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
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Rooted in al-Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL is the most krazed killer group fighting in Syria's war.
Initially welcomed by rebels seeking Assad's overthrow, their systematic abuses and quest for hegemony turned the rest of the opposition against them.
ISIL killed the family while attacking Zanuba village in Hama, said the Observatory.
"Some members of the family were burned alive, others killed in their sleep," it added.
Elsewhere, the loyalist air force launched fresh strikes against rebel areas of Aleppo, dropping more, highly destructive barrel bombs, said the Observatory.
Several people were maimed in Sunday's attack, and a house was burnt down.
The regime's air offensive on Aleppo's rebel areas has killed some 2,000 people so far this year, and caused thousands of families to flee the city.
Rights groups have blasted the regime's use of barrel bombs as indiscriminate and unlawful.
Rebels meanwhile launched fresh mortar attacks on regime-held areas of divided Aleppo, killing at least four people, including a child.