Another Syrian tragedy (IS)

[Jumi]

News report says Daesh kill 300 in an attack to kill mostly women, children and elderly too weak to escape. 40 of Daesh died in the attack.

 

[Jumi]

Also AQ kill at least 20 including a 9 year old girl in Burkina Faso.

 

[Rival]

Source?

 

[Thanda]

News report says Daesh kill 300 in an attack to kill mostly women, children and elderly too weak to escape. 40 of Daesh died in the attack.

Are you saying the able bodied men ran and left the women, children and elderly?

 

[Jumi]

Islamic State kidnaps 400 civilians in Syrian city of Deir al-Zor: monitor

BEIRUT

Islamic State militants kidnapped at least 400 civilians when they attacked government-held areas in the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday, a monitoring group said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday families of pro-government fighters were among those abducted.

"There is genuine fear for their lives, there is a fear that the group might execute them as it has done before in other areas," said the Observatory's head Rami Abdulrahamn.

Deir al-Zor is the main town in a province of the same name. The province links Islamic State's de facto capital in the Syrian city of Raqqa with territory controlled by the militant group in neighboring Iraq.

Syria's state news agency SANA said earlier that at least 300 people, including women and children, had been killed during the attacks in Deir al-Zor, but it made no mention of people getting kidnapped.

Syria's government condemned the killings which it described as a "horrific massacre against the residents of Begayliya in Deir al-Zor".

A source close to the Syrian government side said on Saturday that some of those killed had been beheaded.

Reuters was unable to independently verify the reports.

Islamic State has previously carried out mass killings following military assaults in Iraq and Syria, including the slaughter of 200 soldiers captured from the Tabqa airbase in Raqqa province, and hundreds of members of the al-Sheitat tribe in Deir al-Zor in 2014.

The group, in control of most of Deir al-Zor province, has laid siege since March on remaining government-held areas in the city of Deir al-Zor.

Residents are facing severe food shortages and sharply deteriorating conditions. Of those under siege in the city, 70 percent are women and children, and many have been displaced from their homes elsewhere and are living in temporary shelters.

(Reporting by Mariam Karouny; Editing by Gareth Jones)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-kidnapping-idUSKCN0UV09X

(CNN)Conflicting reports emerged Saturday after ISIS reportedly attacked a village in eastern Syrian and killed many people.

Activists said at least 135 people were killed, while Syrian-controlled media said the death toll was at least 300.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/16/middleeast/syria-isis-attack/index.html

 

[Jumi]

Are you saying the able bodied men ran and left the women, children and elderly?

The reports say they also killed fighters, but killed more civilians and also took hundreds of slaves.

 

[Corthos]

How utterly sad...

Hmm... A quick side note, I wonder what the Quran says about taking slaves? Do you think I could ask that question in the Islam DIR, or would that be considered too disrespectful of a question? (no disrespect intended)

 

[Godobeyer]

How utterly sad...

Hmm... A quick side note, I wonder what the Quran says about taking slaves? Do you think I could ask that question in the Islam DIR, or would that be considered too disrespectful of a question? (no disrespect intended)

Of course you can

 

[Thanda]

The reports say they also killed fighters, but killed more civilians and also took hundreds of slaves.

Okay

 

[Mycroft]

I think it's important to remember that these unfortunate souls were all (mostly) Muslim that were killed.

 

[FearGod]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-kidnapping-idUSKCN0UV09X


http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/16/middleeast/syria-isis-attack/index.html

Are there journalists and reporters observing what had happened or what?
From where they got the news? from the Syrian government or from the IS themselves?

 

[Jumi]

Are there journalists and reporters observing what had happened or what?
From where they got the news? from the Syrian government or from the IS themselves?

Syrian government(SANA) and anti-government(Syrian Observatory for Human Rights) source report the same. What do other, Arabic sources say, is this reported at all?

 

[FearGod]

Syrian government(SANA) and anti-government(Syrian Observatory for Human Rights) source report the same. What do other, Arabic sources say, is this reported at all?

SANA and the anti-government observed the same thing in the same spot while both are enemies.

 

[Pastek]

Syrian government(SANA) and anti-government(Syrian Observatory for Human Rights) source report the same. What do other, Arabic sources say, is this reported at all?

Of course, everyday on the news it's about Syria, Irak, Yemen, Lybia, Sudan, Egypt...


LBC News (Lebanon)

Orient news

RT Arabic

Al Qahira El Yom (Cairo Today)

Sky News Arabic

 

[Jumi]

SANA and the anti-government observed the same thing in the same spot while both are enemies.

What are you trying to say?

 

[Curious George]

Should other countries do something in light of news like this? Or is intervention bad?

 

[FearGod]

What are you trying to say?

You can see in the Arabic news, there's even a camera man recording the event,
Does he belong to SANA or the anti-government or the IS themselves.

I don't trust most of the news.