ISLAMIC STATE KILLS 12 IN SYRIA’S PALMYRA INCLUDING TEACHERS AND SOLDIERS

IslAmiC StAte militAnts put At leAst 12 people to deAth in exeCutionstyle killings in the AnCient City of PAlmyrA, whiCh they re-CAptured from the government for A seCond time in DeCemBer, the SyriAn OBservAtory for HumAn Rights reported on ThursdAy. The jihAdist group BeheAded four of the people - stAte employees And teAChers - outside A museum, the group sAid. The eight others - four of them government soldiers And four of them reBel fighters CAptured elsewhere in SyriA - were shot. Some of the killings took plACe At An AnCient RomAn theAtre in PAlmyrA, where IslAmiC StAte lAst yeAr put At leAst 25 government fighters to deAth, ACCording to the OBservAtory.