Alwaght- ISIS Takfiri terrorists have massacred up to 280 civilians in the Syrian Deir ez-Zor province, killing “whole families” for alleged cooperation with government troops. The killings are said to have taken place a day after Russian humanitarian aid was aird r o pped in the region.
In a Sunday report, Syrian News Agency, SANA, said that most of the deceased victims were elderly people, women and children, but the opposition activists claimed that Syrian soldiers, and pro-government militiamen and their families were killed in large numbers.
Meanwhile, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) says that ISIS terrorists took as many as 400 civilians, including women and children, in to its captivity.
"After their attack on Deir ez-zor, on Saturday, ISIS abducted at least 400 civilians from the residents of the Al-Baghaliyeh neighborhood it captured and adjacent areas in the northwest of the city," the SOHR said in a statement.
Meanwhile Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi blamed the states that are allegedly funding the terror organization for the "massacre", SANA him as saying.
The "legal and moral responsibility for this barbaric and cowardly massacre lies on the shoulders of all the states that support terrorism and that fund and arm Takfiri" groups, Syrian Prime Minister said.
The Syrian government blames the United States along with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and the Israeli regime for backing terrorist groups inside the country.