(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State on Saturday has executed three prominent figures of al-Sheitaat tribe who had been ambushed by ISIS after a support visit to their allied tribesmen in Deir Ezzor province.
The radical group showed no mercy with key tribe in eastern Syria and Iraq after killing hundreds of tribesmen in July 2014.
Leader in the tribe militia backing regime forces in Deir Ezzor, Ibrahim al-Dayer, a well-known Baathist figure, said that a new revenge is added to the revenge of al-Sheitaat after the killing of three of prominent figures after ISIS targeted their car as they returned from the city of Deir Ezzor to Damascus.
Dayer, who held the most prominent leadership of the militia after the killing of his rival, the commander of the militia, Abdul Basset Hamdou Rajab two years ago, added that these "dignitaries" went to Deir Ezzor "to inspect the fighters al-Sheitaat tribe and Sheikh Ibrahim Dayer in the city and praise their efforts to raise their morale. "
Ibrahim al-Dayer with several people previously led groups of robbing and looting associated with the regime intelligence leading a current seeking to form a new nucleus in the province to reproduce the militia of the "National Defense Forces" of the militia from the al-Ashayer by removing Abdul Basit Rajab who returned from the ranks of Deir Ezzor factions to the ranks of the regime after ISIS crushed factions in 2014.
The word "new revenge" was the reference to the "massacre of the al-Sheitaat " by ISIS, which was able to retrieve control of the villages of Abu Hammam, al-Kashkiya and Granig on 10 August 2014 after clashes with tribe militants who rebelled against ISIS in the village of Abu Hamam and expanded to include the villages of the area, but ended with a large massacre that killed hundreds of people amid shocking scenes of crucified bodies, broken heads and destroyed houses.
ISIS which launched counterattack that killed dozens of elements of the regime and the Russians south of Deir Ezzor published photos of the execution of these dignitaries loyal to the Assad regime in al-Shoula area.
Dozens of al-Sheitaat fighters have joined the training camp of Palmyra asince October 2015 after ISIS took control of the entire Deir Ezzor and committed atrocities against the residents of the al-Sheitaat area. They agreed to go to Deir Ezzor to fight the organization with air cover from the regime and Russia.
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