Cross- cutting information reported to SOHR that IS informed relatives of 11 men from the town of al- Bsiri that they have to evacuate their houses within a deadline of 3 days and to keep all furniture and collectables inside the houses. As well as, they seized the cars of those men and the farmlands that they own. In addition to, IS organization informed the relatives of al- Bsiri mayor to collect the worth of his inheritance from his family’s house and to pay it to the Organization because the mayor does not have the house. Those men are a retired brigadier- general and 4 men assassinated by shooting them by unknown gunmen in front of a house in the town of al- Bsiri in September 2013, an employee in the municipality assassinated by unknown gunmen in October 2013, 2 men kidnaped separately in 2013 and 3 men arrested by IS in the town of al- Bsiri when he seized the town last year.

Meanwhile, IS seized a house owned by a defected lieutenant in the city of al- Mayadin. Reliable sources informed SOHR that 3 men witnessed that this house does not belong to the lieutenant, who fought IS before he repented, but they did not believe them and made them walk in al- Maydin market carrying banners written on them “false witnesses”.  They also seized a house owned a member of the Arab Socialist Baath Party, a building consists of 9 apartments belong to fighters of the Nusra Front in the city of al- Mayadin and a house owned by a fighter in the rebel battalions, who did not repent, in the village of Zghir Jazira.

Last month, Cross- cutting information reported to SOHR that IS seized 2 clinics owned by 2 doctors in the city of al- Mayadin accusing them of “dealing with opposing party”.