Islamic State militants beheaded eight Syrian rebels who had surrendered in a town on the border with Iraq last week despite pledges of an amnesty, a monitor said Monday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the men were executed and their bodies hung on makeshift crosses in Albu Kamal in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor.

“The men surrendered in Albu Kamal because the Islamic State had offered amnesty to people who fought them if they turned themselves in,” Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.

Instead, he said, the eight opposition fighters were beheaded and then hung from crosses in a method often employed by the group.   »»» Arab News

If the members of ISIS were obedient Muslims (and they are NOT), they would know that the rules of military jihad set out in the Qur’an and the Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be on him) require Muslims to refrain from torturing or killing an enemy who surrenders or is disarmed.

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