(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-Iran militants have slaughtered six shepherds in northern Aleppo province, committing the second crime against shepherds in four days after the Raqqa massacre that left 27 dead, local activists said Friday.
The Shiite militias have beheaded the victims near the village of al Khefiya.
Activists said the gruesome crime was in retaliation to the death of Qassem Soleimani, the former leader of Quds Force and all Shiite militias in Syria, who was killed last Friday in a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad's airport along with top Shiite militants.
Last Monday, the Iranian militias had beheaded 27 shepherds in the Madan desert east of Raqqa province.
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 Bashar al-Assad regime's forces, according to Anadolu Agency.
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 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.
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