The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday that Islamic State killed at least 128 people in a Syrian town in central Homs over a three-week period before the Syrian army recaptured it on Saturday. There was no immediate comment from Syrian government officials or state media on the report by the Observatory, a Britain-based war monitor. On Saturday, Syrian troops and allied militias regained control of the town, which was held by IS for three weeks. The head of the Observatory, Rami Abdurrahman, sad that what happened in the town was a “massacre.”Syrian troops and allied forces regained control of al-Qaryatayn town “after eliminating terrorist Daesh (Islamic State) groups that had infiltrated it,” state media said on Saturday. The town lies nearly 300km from Deir al-Zor city in the east, the current focus of the government offensive, with Russian jets and Iran-backed militias, against Islamic State.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 23, 2017 09:11 UTC