Fighter publicly shoots dead his mother for asking him to leave Islamic State

An Islamic State fighter has publicly killed his mother after she tried to persuade him to cut his ties with the terror group. Ali Saqr was said to have shot Leena al-Qasem, 45, in front of hundreds of people for allegedly “inciting her son to leave the Islamic State” before it was wiped out by its opponents. The 20-year-old, pictured above, reported her remarks to the group’s leaders, who ordered she be killed. The incident happened in front of the post office where she worked in Raqqa, the Syrian city which has become the de facto capital of the IS group.

Executed Lena AL-Qasem 35 years old formerly Employee in the Mail office they make the Executions in front of the Mail office

Report on social media

The incident was reported by the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently. It was the latest in a string of reported atrocities, with the jihadist group said to have killed more than 2,000 people for reasons including homosexuality, and for the alleged practice of magic and apostasy. In a separate incident, a female member of IS allegedly tortured a 21-year-old Syrian woman to death in the northern city of Manbij for alleged violations to the group’s strict dress code. Earlier this week, it also emerged that the terror group had killed citizen journalist Ruqia Hassan, 30, for writing about life in Raqqa.

She was harshly tortured. We have received her dead body full of physical effects of torture

Family of torture victim in Manbij