Omar Abu Layla writes that ISIS activity has increased in “eastern, western and northern” DeirEzzor countryside, the cells have “been more active their activities have increased due to the indifference of officials about how many people die and the way they die.”
He notes “The cells have reached the point that they have intensified their activities in collecting the so-called zakat,& started to intensify their threatenings against a larger group of civilians, especially those working in the civil council or the autonomous administration departments.”
People are being assassinated.