Condemned to die with a bullet in their heads: ISIS executes two prisoners accused of spying for President Assad and the Kurds in war-torn Aleppo

  • Men paraded through crowds in Syrian city before being shot by militants
  • One accused of working for Assad, the other for Kurdistan Workers’ Party 
  •  Aleppo is centre of brutal power struggle between government and rebels
  • Kurds recently claimed ISIS were planning an attack on a city in north east

Blindfolded and forced to their knees before a baying crowd, two alleged spies are executed by the Islamic State – each with a bullet in the back of the head.

The men were paraded through the Syrian city of Aleppo with their hands tied behind their backs before being thrown to the ground and shot dead by ruthless militants.

One was reportedly accused of spying for Syrian President Bashar al Assad, the other for the opposition Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

Executed before a baying crowd: An ISIS prisoner is forced to kneel before being shot in the back of the head by a militant after being accused of spying for Syrian President Bashar al Assad
Executed before a baying crowd: An ISIS prisoner is forced to kneel before being shot in the back of the head by a militant after being accused of spying for Syrian President Bashar al Assad
Another prisoner is shot in the head after for allegedly spying for the opposition Kurdistan Workers' Party
Another prisoner is shot in the head after for allegedly spying for the opposition Kurdistan Workers’ Party

Last month, Kurdish officials claimed ISIS militants were preparing for an attack on a city in north east Syria, near the border with Iraq, where the terror group remains a significant threat despite recent setbacks elsewhere in the two countries.

Images of the executions were shared on Twitter by anti-ISIS activists Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently who risk their lives leaking atrocities from within Iraq and Syria.

Hasaka province in north east Syria is strategically important for all sides and borders ISIS-held territory in Iraq, where the group is back on the offensive after losing Tikrit earlier this month.

The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia has recorded significant victories against ISIS this year, driving it from the town of Kobane at the Turkish border and then taking two towns in Hasaka province with the help of a U.S.-led air campaign.

But ISIS remains a danger, said Redur Xelil, YPG spokesman. Its targets include the provincial capital, Hasaka city, and the town of Tel Tamr, to the northwest.

Hasaka is home to many Syrians who have fled areas further west, including the country’s second city Aleppo, Xelil said.

The Syrian Observatory, which monitors the Syrian civil war, reports daily clashes between the YPG and ISIS fighters near Tel Tamr, and clashes between the Syrian military and ISIS in areas west and east of Hasaka city.

Condemned to die: The men were paraded through the Syrian city of Aleppo with their hands tied behind their backs before being thrown to the ground and shot dead by ruthless militants 
Condemned to die: The men were paraded through the Syrian city of Aleppo with their hands tied behind their backs before being thrown to the ground and shot dead by ruthless militants 
Images of the executions were shared on Twitter by anti-ISIS activists Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently who risk their lives leaking atrocities from within Iraq and Syria
Images of the executions were shared on Twitter by anti-ISIS activists Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently who risk their lives leaking atrocities from within Iraq and Syria

The YPG has emerged as the only partner for the U.S.-led alliance bombing ISIS in Syria.

But its effectiveness is greatly diminished beyond areas where the Kurds have set up autonomous zones since Syria’s conflict erupted in 2011.

The United States, rejecting any partnership with President Bashar al-Assad against ISIS, is about to launch a programme to train and equip members of the mainstream Syrian opposition in order to fight the jihadists elsewhere.

Xelil said the YPG had not been consulted on the programme, adding that its requests for military supplies remained unmet.

Once Syria’s economic powerhouse, Aleppo has been split between regime control in the west and rebel control in the east.

As a result, it has been the centre of widespread human rights abuses by Syrian government forces and insurgents in the fiercely contested city.

In a new report, Amnesty International sharply condemned the government’s reliance on barrel bombs against rebel-held neighborhoods, saying they have killed more than 3,000 civilians there last year, and more than 11,000 in the country since 2012.

The next Jihadi John? A teenage boy loads a 9mm handgun before appearing to shoot dead an alleged spy in the latest execution video released by the Islamic State terror group
The next Jihadi John? A teenage boy loads a 9mm handgun before appearing to shoot dead an alleged spy in the latest execution video released by the Islamic State terror group
Sinister: A group of masked militants line up behind the prisoner, who is accused of spying for the Iraqi army 
Sinister: A group of masked militants line up behind the prisoner, who is accused of spying for the Iraqi army 

Insurgent groups also committed abuses in Aleppo by using imprecise weapons such as mortars and improvised rockets against government-held neighbourhoods, killing at least 600 civilians in 2014, the report said.

The latest executions also come days after ISIS published chilling video that appears to show a boy executing an alleged Iraqi spy.

Slickly edited footage shows the teenager, of Western appearance, loading a 9mm handgun as the prisoner is driven into a warehouse by a group of masked militants.

The boy, believed to be around 14 years old, forces him to kneel on the ground and removes his blindfold before making a statement in Arabic vowing to avenge the U.S., Russia and Europe.

He then crouches next to the victim, raises his gun to his head and appears to shoot him three or four times. The victim collapses to ground in a pool of blood.

Boy 'executioner': The child, believed to be around 14 years old, forces the prisoner to kneel on the ground and removes his blindfold before making a statement in Arabic vowing to avenge the U.S., Russia and Europe
Boy ‘executioner’: The child, believed to be around 14 years old, forces the prisoner to kneel on the ground and removes his blindfold before making a statement in Arabic vowing to avenge the U.S., Russia and Europe
Sick: The boy crouches next to the victim and raises his gun to the prisoner’s head as the militants look on

But the boy is never seen in the same frame when the fatal shots are fired, raising suspicions the video has been carefully edited to make it appear as if he was the executioner when in fact the gun was fired by an adult.

Similar tactics are believed to have been employed by the terror group in a video earlier this year when a boy of similar age appeared to execute an suspected Israeli spy.

Experts had questioned whether the boy, thought to be about ten, was really the person who pulled the trigger, supposedly murdering Muhammad Said Ismail Musallam with a single gunshot.

It also raises the disturbing possibility that young boys are increasingly being groomed to become the next generation of Jihadi Johns, the British ISIS fighter charged with carrying out the most high-profile executions for the terror group.

source : dailymail.co.uk

media activist from the city of Raqqa, student at the Faculty of Law at the University of the Euphrates. Director of the Media Office of Raqqa, founding member of "Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently", founding member of the documentary project of "Sound and Picture". I work in documenting violations committed by Assad's regime and ISIS group and extremist organizations inside the city of Raqqa, as I work in programming, design and visual media. I hold a certificate of coach in digital security, and a certificate of journalist coach, and a certificate in documenting violations against human rights, and a certificate in electronic advocacy. I underwent a training under the supervision of "Cyber-Arabs" in collaboration with the Institute for War and Peace "IWPR", about the management of electronic websites and leadership of advocacy campaigns, and a training of press photography under the supervision of the photojournalist "Peter Hove Olesen".

6 Comments

  1. May 7, 2015 - 9:20 pm

    The Western media is, in my eyes, complicit in the selling of ISIS to young potential recruits in the West; the absurd insistence on these tabloid style nicknames – “Jihadi John”! – must make ISIS laugh as they see their PR job being done for them, making their top murderers into International “stars”.
    These people are being treated almost as just another “celebrity” in our media, yet – in the US and the UK at least – news services refuse to actually show any of their atrocities, on the grounds that it is “too disturbing”! Of course it’s damn well disturbing, and that is EXACTLY why it should be shown – not censored because some News organisation doesn’t want us to see blood while we’re eating our cornflakes.
    If people don’t want to see reality, they shouldn’t watch news; those of us who do are entitled to have the full picture, not just biographies of the latest jihadi pin-up!

    Real frontline reporting being done by people like those who write for RiBSS is being undermined by the avaricious Western media being more concerned about getting a few more issues sold, a few more clicks on their online news, than the real horror that they are supposed to be covering.

  2. May 7, 2015 - 11:40 pm

    Everything you have said is sadly so true , the reality and horror is censored !! Why ?

  3. Ash
    May 8, 2015 - 7:06 am

    Well said Adam.

  4. June 10, 2015 - 1:40 pm

    Wise of Zion and Zionist bankers wanted to see this..it is their death games on Arabs and Shiah persian and The kurd in order to save Israel..it is America,Zionist and Israel plan to weaken Arabs and Israel will safe for ever also to control oil and politic at the area.

  5. Robert
    August 19, 2015 - 12:52 pm

    Is that a Maserati behind them? Just curious, at least they have good taste in Autos.

  6. Matt
    October 31, 2015 - 3:36 am

    It is such a tragic shame beyond comprehension that other than a few countries, the entire world sits idly by while this carnage goes on…Where’s the United Nations in all this???

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