The self-styled Islamic State (IS) group said in its magazine on Wednesday that it had killed a Chinese and a Norwegian captive, showing what appeared to be pictures of the dead men with a banner reading “executed.”
In its previous issue of Dabiq, it had said the two captives were “for sale”.
Islamic State also said it had originally planned to bring down a Western plane over Egypt’s Sinai but changed its target to a Russian one after Moscow launched airstrikes in Syria.
It said it had smuggled the bomb onto the Russian plane after finding a security loophole at Sharm al-Sheikh airport.
Back in October, United Nations (UN) said that group executed 70 members of a tribe allied to the government in western Iraq.
The victims, members of the Abu Nimr tribe, were executed in the Tharthar area north of Ramadi, capital of Anbar province.
Last year, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that IS killed 1,878 people in Syria, mostly civilians, since their rise to power.
The Syrian monitoring group claimed that IS killed 1,175 civilians, including eight women and four children.
The militant group also beheaded two US journalists, and one American and two British aid workers in attempts to put pressure on a US-led international coalition, which has been bombing its fighters in Syria since September 2014.
