The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that ISIS cells hanged leaflets in front of Abo Bakr Al-Siddek Mosque in Al-Basira city within SDF-held areas in eastern Deir ez-Zor countryside.

According to the report, the leaflets included threats to several workers of the local councils of the Autonomous Administration, and accused the workers of following “Sufism.”

SOHR stated that ISIS cells continue spreading terror and fear among civilians, through hanging leaflets on walls, mosques and electricity poles, threatening to kill civilians including women and men, for charges of “not paying Zakat and other charges.”

On March 24, SOHR reported that gunmen believed to be from ISIS cells stuck pieces of paper on the doors of mosques in the SDF-controlled town of Theban in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor. The paper included messages ordering the owners of bread bakeries in the town to stop “stealing the livelihood of Muslims” and threatening them to be punished by ISIS if they do not do so.

Photo: SOHR