ISIS resurgence | Unknown gunmen assassinated Sufi follower in Deir ez-Zor countryside

Deir ez-Zor province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

SOHR activists say that unidentified gunmen, believed to be ISIS cells, killed a civilian at his home in the town of Mohimida in western countryside of Deir ez-Zor.

It is worth noting that the victim was a follower of a Sufism and accused of sorcery.

This comes in light of ISIS cells’ activities in SDF-held areas.

Since July 2018 to date, the number of fighters, civilians, oil workers and civil servants assassinated in Aleppo, Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa and Al-Hasakah provinces and SDF-controlled Manbij area in north-eastern Aleppo province increased to 704 persons.

The Syrian Observatory has documented the assassination of 248 civilians by armed cells, including 18 children and 13 women in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, Al-Hasakah countryside, Raqqa city and countryside and Manbij, in addition to the assassination of 447 fighters of SDF, including local leaders in the same areas, while four members of the International Coalition were killed, dozens of wounded were also reported by SOHR as a result of these assassinations.