No doubt many of these people fleeing are innocent, as those jailing them will eventually find out.
People are fleeing ISIS rule. Syrian rebels appear to be jailing some of them.
By Hugh Naylor October 12 at 1:16 PM
BEIRUT — As if Syria’s civil war wasn’t already complicated enough. Now a rebel group appears to be throwing Islamic State members, including Europeans, in a makeshift prison with Islamic law and capital punishment.
Jaish al-Tahrir, an opposition group known for its relative moderation, is running a detention facility in northern Syria that holds about 300 people affiliated with the Islamic State who defected or were captured, the BBC reported Wednesday. Some of the detainees have been released, but others still held at the facility, in the rebel-held Idlib province, could face the death penalty in an Islamic court, Mohammad al-Ghabi, who heads Jaish al-Tahrir, told the news agency.
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People are fleeing ISIS rule. Syrian rebels appear to be jailing some of them.
By Hugh Naylor October 12 at 1:16 PM
BEIRUT — As if Syria’s civil war wasn’t already complicated enough. Now a rebel group appears to be throwing Islamic State members, including Europeans, in a makeshift prison with Islamic law and capital punishment.
Jaish al-Tahrir, an opposition group known for its relative moderation, is running a detention facility in northern Syria that holds about 300 people affiliated with the Islamic State who defected or were captured, the BBC reported Wednesday. Some of the detainees have been released, but others still held at the facility, in the rebel-held Idlib province, could face the death penalty in an Islamic court, Mohammad al-Ghabi, who heads Jaish al-Tahrir, told the news agency.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...fleeing-isis-rule-syrian-rebels-appear-to-be-
