A religious court linked to the Al-Nusra Front, the Al-Qa’ida franchise in Syria, carried out ten executions in the northern city of Aleppo on Saturday according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the London-based organization that monitors the Syrian civil war. Except for two defendants accused of committing adultery, the others were all accused of collaborating with the Syrian government. Like the Islamic State (ISIS), other Sunni Islamist groups are setting up religious courts to enforce Islamic law in towns and villages they take over after routing the Syrian army. And like ISIS, the Al-Nusra Front is known for its immediate public executions of soldiers it capture as it fights government troops. The Syrian civil war began in March 2011 and since that time has amassed a death toll in excess of 230,000.
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