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Rabat- Amid their ongoing massacres in Syria, the Islamic State’s militants have reportedly “massacred” at least 700 members of the Shaitat tribe in the last two weeks in the province of Deir ez-Zor, according to an NGO.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 600 of the dead were civilians, and the rest were fighters.
AFP quoted the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Abdel Rahman Rami, as saying that “the fate of 1,800 other members of the tribe was unknown.”
The massacres of the rebel tribe by the Islamic State’s militants took place in several villages in province of Deir-ez-Zor, mainly the Ghranij, Abu Hamam, and Kashkiyeh villages.
The clashes broke out after the Shaitat tribe tried to rebel against the Islamic State in the oil-rich province of Deir Ezzor, which is mainly controlled by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).
The Shaitat tribe has been fighting ISIS’s militants in the three villages since July, after the tribe refused to bow to ISIS control.
The head of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), Hadi al-Bahra, has indirectly called the United States to launch air strikes against ISIS and the Assad regime.
"In the name of humanity, I call on the United Nations and all countries that believe in freedom, headed by the United States, to take action on the situation in Syria in the same way they are in Iraqi Kurdistan, because the cause is the same, the enemy is the same, "said Mr Al-Bahra.
