The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group which posted the video, said the [war crime] was conducted by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a foreign-led group fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad and establish an Islamic emirate in Syria.
The footage shows armed men in black standing outdoors in a circle around a man who is lying on the grass. One of the militants leans over the victim and appears to
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The remainder of the three-minute video shows the crowd, which includes several children, talking, laughing and taking photographs of the scene.
The Britain-based Observatory, which opposes Assad and has an extensive network of sources across Syria, said the video was taken in the central province of Homs. Its authenticity could not be independently verified.
Hard-line Islamist rebels with links to al-Qaida have come to dominate the largely [Salafi] Muslim insurgency against Assad, who is supported by members of his minority Alawite sect – an offshoot of Shia Islam – as well as Shia fighters from Iraq and Lebanon's Hezbollah.
Both sides in Syria's nearly three-year conflict have been implicated in torture, killings and other war crimes.
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/02/shia-fighter-beheaded-syrian-rebels-video?CMP=twt_fd
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