The Islamic State has executed 19 men at Al-Omar oil field which it captured on July 3, a monitoring group said.
Most of the men were shot dead, with one of them decapitated, "in one of the bloodiest executions", according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Observatory said the executed men were staff at the oil field, one of Syria's largest, who were taken prisoner when IS took over.
Since joining the conflict in Syrian in spring 2013, IS has seized control of almost all of Raqa and Deir Ezzor provinces on the border with Iraq, where it has waged a devastating offensive since June.
At the end of June, IS declared a caliphate in territory it controls in Syria and Iraq.
In relevant context, IS responded to recent attacks against its forces in Deir Ezzor province by displaying the heads of three tribesmen who took up arms against them on Tuesday.
The Observatory said the three tribal fighters were from the village of al-Jurdi, where the grisly messages to the public were placed in a public square. ISIS militants and tribesmen clashed on the outskirts of the village, it added, after tribal fighters withdrew from al-Jurdi Monday and ISIS seized the village.
Monitoring group The Syria Human Rights Network warned ISIS was planning a campaign of revenge in the wake of recent attacks against its fighters in Deir Ezzor.
The Observatory estimates more than 171,000 people have died in violence in Syria since March 2011, the start of a peaceful uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's regime that developed into an armed revolt. (With AFP, The Daily Star)
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