Saturday, July 26, 2014

IS Forces Seize Syrian Army Base in Raqa Province; Several Syrian Troops Beheaded, Bodies on Display

Islamic State (IS) militants today (July 26, 2014) seized a Syrian army base in the northern province of Raqa, killing scores of troops and beheading some of them, the AFP (Agence-France Presse) website reports.

In the two-day assault on the base in Raqa province, the jihadists killed at least 85 soldiers, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. More than 50 troops were summarily executed, 19 others were killed in a double suicide bombing, and at least 16 more died in the assault launched on July 24.

Hundreds of troops "withdrew yesterday to safe places -- either to nearby villages whose residents oppose IS or to nearby Brigade 93 -- but the fate of some 200 remains unknown," Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said.

"Some of the executed troops were beheaded, and their bodies and severed heads put on display in Raqa city," an IS stronghold, he told AFP.

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