A Syrian activist working to expose the atrocities of Islamic State was found beheaded in southern Turkey on Friday, in what is believed to be the terror group’s first assassination outside of its territory. Hamadi was also in his early twenties.
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RBSS said it thought Islamic State was responsible for the double murder but no claim has so far been posted online. CPJ added that Abdul-Qadir was a founding member of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.
Turkey has been repeatedly accused of being one of the main supporters of the militant groups operating in Syria, with reports saying that Ankara actively trains and arms the Takfiri militants there and facilitates their safe passage into the Arab country.
Turkish warplanes hit the Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria on Saturday, local NTV news broadcaster reported.
“These murders show how the grave risks journalists face in Syria have metastasised across the porous border with Turkey”.
Asked whether the use of USA special operations troops in northern Syria to coordinate with local forces was a model that would be adopted in Iraq, Carter said “we will continue to consider” this and other ways to achieve better results against the militants, who control large portions of Iraq and Syria.
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Earnest maintained the US role in Iraq and Syria, under Operation Inherent Resolve, will not shift toward a combat mission, which has been questioned in that past week since Army Master Sgt. Joshua L. Wheeler was killed during a U.S.-Kurdish peshmerga raid of an Islamic State prison in northern Iraq.
The video said, “May every apostate knows that he will be slaughtered silently”.
The city became the first provincial capital to fall from regime control in March 2013 when an array of rebel groups took it. The Syrian government, US-led anti-IS coalition planes and now the Russian air force have all periodically bombed areas in or near Raqqa to try to weaken IS’s hold of the city.
RBSS regularly publishes information, photos and videos about IS dictates and behaviour in Raqa, from a jihadist ban on private Internet connections to its decision to begin issuing identity cards. The group’s activists operate with the utmost secrecy, with a few having relocated to Turkey for fear of attack.
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Both the PYD and the militia linked to it are sister organisations of the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK), a group branded as terrorists by much of the west as well as Turkey, which has fought the group for decades. “They’re going to make history, not just accept it”.
