[ARABNEWS] Daesh executed dozens of people in different crisis zones of the Middle East on Thursday. The terror group killed at least 23 Syrian Kurds, among them women and kiddies, in a village south of the border town of Kobani, a monitor said.
"Daesh men rubbed out at least 23 people in the Kurdish village of Barkh Butan, including women and kiddies and residents who had taken up arms to fight," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Daesh launched a surprise attack on Kobani on Thursday, using at least two suicide boom-mobiles and clashing with Kurdish forces.
Kobani, on the border with
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, is an important symbol in the battle against the radicals, having been secured by Kurdish militia with US-led air support in January after four months of ferocious fighting.
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At least five Death Eaters were killed in festivities with residents, the Observatory said.
Arin Shekhmos, a Kurdish activist in northern Syria, confirmed the executions.
Meanwhile,
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Daesh forces of Evil beheaded 12 men from rival Syrian rebel movements accused of fighting against them, in a video released on Thursday.
It is the latest in a long series of mass beheadings by Daesh, and comes two days after the group released a video showing it killing 16 people in neighboring Iraq, drowning some of them in a cage.
Three of those killed in the new video were from Jaish al-Islam
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful..., one of the main rebel groups in the Damascus area, and a fourth from 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, Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate and Daesh's main rival in the country.
While the men, whom Daesh said were captured during a battle, were apparently from Syrian rebel groups, their heads and beards were shaved, likely as an insult by Daesh.
Separately, Daesh detonated a boom-mobile and then opened fire on Iraqi troops in the western province of Anbar on Thursday, killing 14 soldiers, security sources said.
Twenty-seven soldiers were also maimed in Thursday's attack in Anbar's Nadheem Al-Taqseem region.
In the town of Hit, west of Ramadi, artillery fire and rocket attacks targeted the local irrigation department, killing nine people and wounding 13.