IS militants tie captives to Palmyra columns, blow them up

The group is known for gruesome killings, including beheadings and immolation.

The New York Post sources this particular report to an activist in Palmyra who goes by the name Nasser al-Thaer.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the three were civilians but that their identities remain unknown.

Palmyra was captured by ISIS in May and the militant group has since destroyed numerous city’s ancient artefacts and historical sites, including the temples of Bel and Baal Shamin as well as several funerary towers, according to the MailOnline.

The militants have also ransacked Palmyra’s priceless antiquities for sale on the black market.

The YPG, which is considered a key ally of the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS, said the strikes were meant to provoke them.

October: Turkey says 17 suspected PKK rebels are killed after security officers enforce a military lockdown in the mainly Kurdish southeastern town of Silvan.

Violence between Kurds fighters and Turkish forces will not decline, as Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that Turkey is determined not to allow any Kurds enter the western part of the Euphrates River.

The PYD has said that Turkey shot at its forces in the town of Tal Abyad in northern Syria twice on Sunday, mostly with machine guns, after the town included into a Kurdish enclave.

“We said the [Democratic Union Party] PYD can not move to the west of Firat (Euphrates)”.

Davutoglu’s comments came after Syrian Kurdish fighters accused the Turkish military of attacking their positions in northern Syria from where they expelled IS after fierce clashes in June.

“Turkey can not abandon its border, its fate to any country”, he added, without elaborating. Turkey is concerned that the Kurdish PYD, which has links with the PKK, may fuel separatist ambitions in Turkey.

Erdogan, an increasingly polarising figure in Turkey, on Monday vowed to press ahead with operations against all “terrorists” including Islamic State and the outlawed PKK.