Mounting abuses by AL Qaeda against people of Raqqa

 “Because his wife wasn't wearing a veil when they were walking in the city of Raqqa, he was arrested by the State of Iraq and The Levant,” Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

Another man has been arrested due to sitting in front of his house with his family, the British-based watchdog said.

In relevant abuse for human rights and personal freedom by ISIL, two girls, in their twenties, have been lashed on Friday for not wearing Hijabs.

ISIL, emboldened by its recent victory over rival rebels in Syria, has imposed sweeping restrictions on personal freedoms in the Northern Province of Raqqa as it seeks to consolidate control over the region.

The ISIL radicals have beheaded on Friday two men by sword for first time publicly over charges of insulting The Holy Prophet, source told Zaman Alwasl.

Reuters obtained copies of four statements issued on Sunday by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) prohibiting music from being played in public and photographs of people being posted in shop windows.

The sale of cigarettes and shisha water pipes are banned, women must wear the niqab, or full face veil, in public and men are obliged to attend Friday prayers at a mosque.

The directives, which cite Koranic verses and Islamic teaching, are the latest evidence of ISIL's ambition to establish a Syrian state founded on radical Islamist principles.

ISIL is widely considered the most radical of the rebel groups fighting forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, and increasingly each other, in Syria's civil war.

The first and only city to have fallen completely under rebel control, Raqqa has been held up by many ordinary Syrians as an example of what Syria might look like in a post-Assad era.

The anti-Assad Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group with sources across the country, said ISIL was turning its attention to setting up such a state after repelling an offensive earlier this month by rival Islamists and more moderate rebels.

The Observatory said ISIL was posting the statements at mosques and other public places on Monday. The statements gave residents three days to start complying or face unspecified punishments "in accordance with sharia", or Islamic law.