The Islamic State reportedly executed three of its detainees in Palmyra the ancient city in Syria, by strapping the three to pillars and then blowing them and the antiquities up said a rights group in Syria.
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The group is known for gruesome killings, including beheadings and immolation.
“U.S. officials have supported the Kurdish efforts to battle ISIS in northern Syria, though it has tried to be sensitive to Turkish concerns about the group, which has ties to Kurdish militants in Turkey who are considered terrorists by both Ankara and Washington”.
Earlier this week, ISIS posted images on social media purported to show its members driving a tank over a captured government soldier, allegedly to revenge what it said was his driving over ISIS militants. “We hit it twice”.
Since the jihadists seized Palmyra from regime forces in May, they have destroyed multiple sites and historic artefacts, including its celebrated temples of Bel and Baal Shamin as well as several funerary towers.
“We said the PYD will not go west of the Euphrates and that we would hit it the moment it did”.
The YPG previously accused Turkish forces of shelling the Kurdish-held village of Zur Maghar in Aleppo with tank-fire in July, a claim denied by the Turkish government.
Turkey’s military has twice attacked US-allied Kurdish opposition fighters in northern Syria, Ahmet Davutoglu, the country’s prime minister has confirmed for the first time.
The BBC reports on the airstrikes against the Kurdish YPG and the tensions within Turkey before the November 1 elections.
One incident was on the eastern edge of the river, but the other two were said to be far from the Euphrates, including one near Tel Abyad, which lies 90 kilometres to the east. Such a plan would not work because Turkey can never leave the fate of its 911-kilometer-long border to any country’s decision.
Davutoğlu said once more that the PYD and Syria’s government had agreed to conspire against Turkey in a meeting on May 28, which was also an indication the PKK chose to cease the Kurdish solution process.
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The YPG is the main ally on the ground of the United States-led coalition pushing back the Islamic State (Daesh) group.
