Revenge killing: Christian fighter beheads ISIS militant

An ISIS militant was beheaded by an Assyrian Christian fighter who reportedly held the militant captive, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The militant was found by the Christian fighter in the local village of Tal Shamiram in the province of Hasakeh where the Christian man took the militant prisoner. After learning the man is part of ISIS, the Assyrian Christian beheaded him out of revenge.

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MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - "He took him prisoner and when he found out he was a member of IS, the Assyrian fighter beheaded him in revenge for abuses committed by the group in the region," said Rami Abdel Rahman, chief of the London-based observatory.

The Islamic extremist organization had been committing mass murders, public executions, rape and enslavement in Syria and Iraq. Earlier this month, about 300 Yazidis were captured and killed by the militants at the Tal Afar district, west of Mosul in Iraq.

An international rights group said that among the captives are women who are sexually abused and taken as slaves. There are also children and elderly people among the captives, who tried to flee from the terrorized location and were later executed by ISIS.

"Women, children and elderly people are confirmed among the victims. IS gathered them in one place and shot them all together," said an official from the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has been covering the Syrian conflict that started four years ago

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