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Following the many stories of ISIL and al-Qaeda affiliate fighters killing, beheading and burning people alive, an ISIL extremist fighter shot and killed his own mother before onlookers at a public square in the Syrian city of Raqqa, activists reported on Friday.

According to sources, the latest in ISIL’s brutal public killings took place last Wednesday, after he was told that she was not a true believer.

Scores of killings were conducted by the extremist fighters across Iraq and Syria to capture large swaths of land that they claim should be part of the “caliphate” they are trying to establish. Many of these killings have been captured on camera, with the gruesome videos later posted on social media sites.

The fighter, Ali Saqr, 21, killed his mother in front of several hundred people for what ISIL called apostasy.

Sources noted that his mother Leena, 45, who lived in the town of Tabqa, near Raqqa, but was originally from the coast, told her son she wanted to leave and wanted him to come with her.

ISIL have executed several women in recent weeks, including Ruqia Hassan, who was a "citizen journalist" from Raqqa reporting on life inside the town on her Facebook page. She disappeared in July, and her family was informed of her death on January 2.

According to sources, this would not be the first time that a member of ISIL has killed a parent on the group’s orders. Last year, a Lebanese father traveled to Raqqa to try to bring back his son who had joined the extremist group, as well as three other friends whom the son had persuaded to go there. The son reported the father, who was detained and killed, according to interviews with family members.

ISIL has executed more than 3,000 Syrian civilians in the 18 months since it declared its "caliphate" over the territory it controls in Syria and Iraq.

In 2014, a woman was stoned to death after ISIL allegedly charged her with adultery. In 2015, the video of a Jordanian pilot inside a metal cage who was set on fire in Raqqa was circulated on social media. ISIL has also posted images of beheadings of captured foreigners, journalists and aid workers, including Americans, British and those of other nationalities.

Moreover in 2015, two mass graves were discovered in Iraq containing at least 80 bodies of middle-aged Yazidi women. Sources reported that the goal of ISIL was to dehumanize the Yazidi people and eradicate their race. The ancient tribe can be traced back to ancient Mesopotamia and Iraq, but are considered as devil worshippers by ISIL militants.

In August 2015, the terrorist group fighters killed at least 19 women due to their refusal to practice sex with the members of the group, media official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul Saeed Mimousini had disclosed.

The violent acts of ISIL have crossed the borders of Syria and Iraq, as it has claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks of 13 November 2015, the explosion of a plane travelling from Egypt to Russia, and the individual killings of Western hostages, including James Foley and Alan Henning.

The group funds itself through looting, extortion and the possession of oilfields providing an estimated £1.8m in revenue per day. Also, the group and other al-Qaeda affiliates are backed by Wahhabi Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey as well as the US government and some Western states.