Two women, accused of "sorcery", in Syria have been beheaded by Islamic State, in the first such executions of female civilians by the group.
“The Islamic State group executed two women by beheading them in Deir Ezzor province, and this is the first time the Observatory has documented women being killed by the group in this manner,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, chief of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Both women were executed with their husbands, each couple being accused of "witchcraft and sorcery".
Islamic State has previously decapitated Kurdish female fighters' corpses and stoned civilian women to death on accusations of adultery, the Observatory said.