Four Al Shabab players have been executed by ISIS militants in Syria after its religious leaders said supporting football was anti-Islamic.
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ISIS barbarians behead four popular footballers
ISIS extremists behead four footballers after declaring the sport anti-Islamic
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Accordint to the Dailymail, the footballers - namely Osama Abu Kuwait, Ihsan Al Shuwaikh, Nehad Al Hussein and Ahmed Ahawakh - were beheaded in front of a crowd of children in Raqqa after they were accused of spying for the Kurdish YPG.
Gruesome pictures of the execution - which shows children inspecting the bodies of the victims - were posted on a dissedent group's Twitter feed.
ISIS banned organised sports like football when they took over Raqqa in Syria more than two years ago.
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Fans in the city used to flock to watch Al-Shabab play matches in the city’s large stadium.
Last year ISIS militants executed 13 teenage boys for watching the Asian Cup football match between Iraq and JordanThe young football fans had been caught watching the game on television in the Iraqi city of Mosul, which is controlled by the Islamic State.
The teenagers were rounded up and publicly executed by a firing squad using machine guns, anti-ISIS activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently reported.
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