A new video has been released by the Syrian rebel group, Jaysh al-Islam (Army of Islam), showing the killing of 18 alleged IS militants. The video depicts a scenario of turned tables where the executioners are seen in orange jumpsuits -widely known as the costume worn by the victims executed by ISIS- while the executed are black-clad and chained together by ankle and wrist shackles. Similar to the visual and sound effects used in IS’s execution videos, the 20-minute production released by Jaysh al-Islam plays gruesome footage of the IS militants being shot with shotguns in the back of the head at point blank range, often recorded from different angles including graphic close-up shots. For over four years, since the eruption of insurgence in Syria, the power struggle has resulted in several militant organizations fighting against Bashar al-Assad’s army. Having rejected to join the coalition of the Western-backed Syrian National Council, Jaysh al-Islam was formed as a merger of 50 Damascus-based Islamist opposition groups in September 2013. According to AFP, the execution of the extremist group’s militants comes as an act of revenge to the recent IS beheading of three…
