IS kills Druze woman captured in Syria attack

The Islamic State group has killed a woman from a group of Druze hostages it seized during a deadly attack in Syria's Sweida province, a source and a monitor said Tuesday.

The 25-year-old was among more than 30 people IS jihadists abducted as they launched the deadliest attack to hit Sweida's Druze minority since the start of Syria's seven-year civil war.

In the attack on July 25, IS waged a series of suicide bombings, shootings and stabbings that left more than 250 people dead across the southwestern province, most of them civilians.

It later emerged the jihadists had also kidnapped the group, mostly Druze women and their children, during the attack.

A source familiar with negotiations with the group told AFP that "relatives of Tharwat Abu Ammar were told Tuesday that she had been executed" by IS. The jihadists also sent a picture of her, covered in blood, to a negotiator, the source said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said she had been shot in the head.

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