At least 27 civilians have been found dead in eastern Raqqa province, local sources said on Monday.
According to the sources, the victims, who were local sheep herders, were beheaded and left in Madan and Sapha districts.
The whereabouts of ten more people was still unknown, the sources said.
The incident coincided with the passage of a convoy of Iran-backed terrorist groups who were en route to Raqqah to provide military support to the Bashar al-Assad regime's forces.
Activists said the gruesome crime was in retaliation to the death of Qassem Soleimani, the former leader Quds Forces and all Shiite militias in Syria, who was killed on Friday in a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad's airport along with top Shiite militants.
For its part, Raqqah is Being Slaughtered Silently, a local news network, shared on its Twitter account a video of the victims and identified 21 of them.
Also in eastern Syria, at least 10 pro-Iran militants killed Friday by landmines planted by Daesh (ISIS) on a desert road links between Homs and Deir Ezzor province, local news site reported.
Badyia 24 said the landmine attack took place near the town of al-Sukhnah in the eastern countryside of Homs
A series of ambushes by ISIS on regime forces and allied militias in the central province of Homs have been reported in the last few weeks.
All the Shiite militias are working under the command of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), led by Suleiman Rezaei, nicknamed ‘The Iranian’.
In December, Iran-backed militias have mobilized in the Syrian Desert, known as Badiya, near the historic city of Palmyra, al-Sukhna, the al-Talila area, and the Hail oil field.
The civil war in Syria began in early 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on protestors with unexpected ferocity, which led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and the displacement of millions.
Zaman Al Wasl, AA
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