{"id":6308,"date":"2014-10-01T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/?p=6308"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:52:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:52:55","slug":"ribal-al-assad-condemns-barbaric-beheading-of-kurdish-men-and-women-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/ribal-al-assad-condemns-barbaric-beheading-of-kurdish-men-and-women-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribal Al-Assad condemns barbaric beheading of Kurdish men and women in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Syria: Isis Beheads Kurdish Women Soldiers as Battle for Kobani Rages On<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IBT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Militants of the Islamic State (also known as Isis) have beheaded seven men and three women in a Syrian Kurdish area west of Kobani, where a key battle between Kurdish forces and jihadists is being fought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said five Kurdish fighters of which three were women, and four Syrian Arab rebels were killed along with a Kurdish male civilian in a town 14km (8mi) west of Kobani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The monitoring group said it did not know the reasons behind the beheadings, but told Reuters that Isis &#8220;wants to scare people&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The development came as Isis forces are closing in on Kobani, according to Mustafa Denktas, a member of the mayoral council of the Turkish border town of Suruc. He told Bloomberg News that jihadists are &#8220;two to three kilometres away from the southeastern tip of Kobani&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US-led coalition warplanes bombed militant positions near the Syrian town, also known as Ayn al-Arab. The Sunni militants launched an attack to take Kobani, which is predominantly Kurdish, causing thousands of civilians to flee their homes into Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to the new, ODFS Director, Ribal Al-Assad said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I am disgusted by the acts of these Islamists, beheading captive soldiers is a crime and those responsible must be held accountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every day we hear further reports of abhorrent atrocities committed by Islamic extremists; the international community must come together and put an end to this &#8211; how many more people have to be subjected to the barbaric and unmitigated violence displayed by these animals before something is done to stop them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I condemn these acts in the strongest possible terms.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syria: Isis Beheads Kurdish Women Soldiers as Battle for Kobani Rages On IBT Militants of the Islamic State (also known as Isis) have beheaded seven men and three women in a Syrian Kurdish area west of Kobani, where a key battle between Kurdish forces and jihadists is being fought. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6311,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308\/revisions\/6311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}