BEIRUT — The Islamic State jihadist group has executed one of dozens of Druze hostages abducted from Syria’s southern province of Sweida last month, a Syrian news outlet and a monitor said Sunday.
IS killed the 19-year-old male student on Thursday after kidnapping more than 30 people, mostly women and children, from a village in Sweida during a deadly rampage on July 25, the head of the Sweida24 news website Nour Radwan said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said it was the first execution since the kidnappings.
In in eastern Afghanistan, a suicide bomber killed three foreign soldiers in an attack on a patrol on Sunday, NATO’s mission in the country said.
“Three Resolute Support service members were killed by a suicide bomber during a combined, dismounted patrol with Afghan forces in eastern Afghanistan,” it said in a statement.
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A US member of the patrol and two Afghan soldiers were wounded, it said, without giving the nationality of those killed.
