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ISIS Executes Dozens Of Syrian Media Activists

The Islamic State terrorist group released a video on Wednesday claiming responsibility for the slaughter of dozens of Syrian journalists and media activists labelling them as spies of the ‘crusader coalition’. ABNA 24 reports: The ISIS-linked Al-Khair Media Center in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province released a short film documenting the execution of more than 100 Syrian media workers at the hands of ISIS fighters. The video shows footages for the journalists and media activists who have been killed by ISIS over the past two years in Syria, while others were shot dead in Turkey–where a large group of Syrian journalists are based. Through the new propaganda video, the radical group tries to show Syrian journalists and media activists as spies to the U.S.-led coalition in the ISIS-held areas. It further threatens to pursue and kill all media workers who report information about the daily happenings in its territory under the pretext that they serve the ‘crusader coalition’. Among the victims were some prominent local journalists and filmmakers, such as Naji al-Jarf who was killed by ISIS-linked gunmen in Turkey’s southern city of Gaziantep in December 2015. Jerf, known for producing documentaries hostile to the radical group of ISIS, was [...]