The Islamic State jihadist group executed at least 20 men in the ruins of Syria's Palmyra on Wednesday, accusing them of fighting for the government, a monitoring group said.
"IS executed 20 men by firing on them in front of a crowd gathered in Palmyra's Roman theater, after accusing them of fighting for the Syrian regime," Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP.
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