BERIUT: At least 10 people were executed on Saturday in Syria’s Aleppo city on the orders of a court dominated by Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front, a monitor said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said two of the executed were accused of adultery, with the rest accused of collaboration with the Syrian government.
The executions, in the eastern Aleppo neighborhood of Shaar, were ordered by a religious court that includes several conservative rebel groups but is dominated by Al-Nusra Front. All 10 men were shot dead, the Observatory said.
The so-called courts have been set up in many towns and villages in Syria taken from government forces by militant groups.
Al-Nusra has also carried out summary executions of government troops in areas it has captured.
More than 230,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict started in March 2011 with anti-government protests.
Meanwhile, activists said clashes between members of Al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria and a rebel faction in the country’s north believed to have been trained by the US government have stopped after the rebels left the area.
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, says members of the Division 30 faction fled to a nearby area controlled by a Syrian Kurdish militia.
At least 1,332 Iraqis were killed by violence in July amid the war against Daesh, a slight drop from June, according to UN figures released Saturday.
The UN mission to Iraq said that at least 844 civilians were among the dead, while 488 members of Iraqi security forces and pro-government militias fighting Daesh were killed. It put the number of the wounded at 2,108. Baghdad was the worst affected province with 335 people killed.
In June, at least 1,466 people were killed and 1,687 were wounded. The UN statistics largely do not include territory held by Daesh, which controls about a third of Iraq and neighboring Syria in its self-declared “caliphate.”
Al-Nusra Front executes 10 in Syria’s Aleppo
