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Group: ISIL Kills Over 700 Tribal Members in Eastern Syria

HeadlineAug 18, 2014

A Syrian human rights group claims the Islamic State has killed around 700 members of a tribe in eastern Syria over the past two weeks. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the killings targeted the al-Sheitaat tribe, which inhabits several towns invaded by ISIL forces. In a measure on Friday, the U.N. Security Council condemned ISIL for “gross, systematic and widespread abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law.”

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