Takfiris crucify two Syria militants

An al-Qaeda-linked Takfiri group says it has publicly crucified two militants in northeastern Syria in retaliation for an earlier grenade attack on its members.

The terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) said the two were among a total of seven prisoners put to death in connection with a grenade attack in the Euphrates Valley city of Raqqa earlier this month.

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has published a photo of the two militants being crucified with one of them being pictured with a banner which reads, “This man fought against Muslims and threw a grenade in this place.”

The SOHR said these crucifixions were not the first by the ISIL, noting that the Takfiris had crucified a man on April 16.

In February, a Syrian girl was reportedly stoned to death for having opened a Facebook account after an ISIL-run court ruled membership to the social networking website carried the death penalty by stoning.

Foreign-sponsored Takfiri groups have been behind many of the deadly bomb attacks targeting both civilians and government institutions across Syria over the past three years.

Syria has been gripped by deadly violence since March 2011.