Beirut: Daesh beheaded overnight two opposition fighters accused of fighting the terrorist group in a southern Damascus suburb, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said on Tuesday.
“Daesh executed two men in south Damascus by beheading” after they were accused of being traitors, the Britain-based Observatory said.
Observatory chief Rami Abdul Rahman said Daesh had kidnapped the fighters from Qadam, a Damascus neighbourhood, and beheaded them in Hajar Al Aswad, a suburb of the capital.
Daesh has a relatively limited presence in south Damascus, with its forces concentrated in the outskirts of Qadam and Hajar Al Aswad.
The incident is the third time its terrorists are reported to have carried out beheadings in and around the capital.
On March 21, Daesh beheaded three fighters, also accusing them of being traitors, in Hajar Al Aswad.
And after Daesh seized control of large portions of the Palestinian Yarmouk camp this month, following an attack launched from Hajar Al Aswad, the group executed a number of Palestinian fighters there.
Qadam has been relatively stable for the past eight months, since a truce deal between Syrian government forces and rebels in the district.
Syria’s conflict has killed more than 220,000 people since it erupted in March 2011 with protests against President Bashar Al Assad.
