Al-Nusra Terrorists Kill 40 Villagers in Northwest Syria

Local Editor

Members of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front terrorist group had executed more than three dozen Druze civilians in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib.

Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the extremists recently killed 40 people, among them the elderly, just outside their homes and in front of onlookers in Qalb Loze village, located about 35 kilometers [22 miles] west of Aleppo, Lebanon-based Arabic-language daily al-Akhbar reported on Thursday.

The sources added that the victims were executed on the grounds that they refused to force their sons, some as young as 10 to 14 years old, into joining the ranks of the Takfiri terrorist network.

A local militant commander, known by the nom de guerre Abu Abdulrahman al-Tunisi had nearly a week ago ordered villagers to compel their male offspring to fight for al-Nusra Front. The children were to receive combat training and lessons on how to use arms in al-Nusra Front's camps for two months before being sent to the frontlines.

The Syrian sources said that families in Qalb Loze were also being forced to marry off their daughters, and that houses belonging to slain Syrian army troopers were being squatted by al-Nusra Front extremists and their original occupants were being thrown out.

Further, about a year ago, al-Nusra Front Takfiri group had taken over the Druze al-Sumac Mountain previously under "ISIL" control and had assigned the Saudi Saeed al-Ghamdi to "teach Druze the basis of Islam" or else they would be slaughtered!

The following are the names of martyrs of the massacre: Sheikh Nadim Shahin and Sheikh Rashid Saad [75 years old], Rahaf al-Shibli [8 years old], Mohamad Ahmad Hussein, Milad Rizk and others.

Syria had been suffering from a deadly crisis fueled by Takfiri groups since March 2011. The conflict had reportedly left more than 230,000 people, including almost 11,500 children, dead, up until now.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team