Islamic State on Saturday released a video showing the execution of 25 Syrian regime soldiers in the ancient amphitheatre in the city of Palmyra, according to AFP.
The killings were first reported shortly after IS seized the ancient desert city on May 21, and were some of the more than 200 executions it carried out in the area around that time.
The video showed young boys and teenagers shooting the kneeling soldiers dead in front of a large IS black-and-white flag, as a crowd of men and some children watched.
Also on Saturday, US-led coalition forces carried out a series of 16 airstrikes against IS in its Syrian stronghold of Raqa, one of the biggest assaults on the extremists so far.
"The significant airstrikes tonight were executed to deny Daesh the ability to move military capabilities throughout Syria and into Iraq," spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Gilleran said in a statement, using another acronym for IS.
"This was one of the largest deliberate engagements we have conducted to date in Syria and it will have debilitating effects on Daesh's ability to move from Raqa."
The killings were first reported shortly after IS seized the ancient desert city on May 21, and were some of the more than 200 executions it carried out in the area around that time.
The video showed young boys and teenagers shooting the kneeling soldiers dead in front of a large IS black-and-white flag, as a crowd of men and some children watched.
Also on Saturday, US-led coalition forces carried out a series of 16 airstrikes against IS in its Syrian stronghold of Raqa, one of the biggest assaults on the extremists so far.
"The significant airstrikes tonight were executed to deny Daesh the ability to move military capabilities throughout Syria and into Iraq," spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Gilleran said in a statement, using another acronym for IS.
"This was one of the largest deliberate engagements we have conducted to date in Syria and it will have debilitating effects on Daesh's ability to move from Raqa."
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