(New York Times) Hania Mourtada and Rick Gladstone - Islamist extremists in Syria killed 150 soldiers in an Aleppo suburb this week, including 51 who were executed after they had surrendered, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which sympathizes with the opposition. A video dated Wednesday showed what appeared to be an execution ground, with dozens of lifeless bodies clumped against a wall pockmarked with bullet holes. Rami Abdulrahman, the Syrian Observatory founder, said the killers were members of the Nusra Front and Ansar al-Khalafa al-Islamiya Brigade.
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