THE people of Syria continue to bear the brunt of violence, as their country faces a crisis with nearly ten million in need of humanitarian assistance.

While more than two million people have already fled to the neighbouring countries, vile acts of terror are still taking place.

In one appalling act, a pro-Al Qaeda Jihadist group in Syria posted photos of a man having his hand cut off on Twitter.

The amputation, which was live-tweeted on the social networking platform was deemed inappropriate, and the Twitter account that hosted the images has been suspended.

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES BELOW.

The group responsible, militant organisation ISIS — Islamist State in Iraq and Syria — claimed the man, an alleged thief, had asked to be punished in this way.

Several Jihadi accounts said the “thief” had admitted his crimes “and also asked that his hand be cut off to cleanse his sins”.

It was not immediately possible to verify the accounts, and the photographs and tweets have now been removed from Twitter.

One photograph showed the man blindfolded and sitting in a chair with a crowd of militant rebels around him. His hand was being held down on a table.

Another man dressed in a traditional white robe stands in front of the table, and on the right side is a man in a black balaclava holding a sword.

In another photo, the man is seen looking away moments before his hand is severed, before it finally is cut off.

The punishment was inflicted by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a pro-Al Qaeda Jihadist group that many fear is taking an iron grip over parts of Syria.

The group was formed in April 2013 and grew out of al-Qaeda’s affiliate organisation in Iraq, but it was formally disowned by the central organisation on February 3 for being too extreme.

One of its leaders, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been deemed Middle East’s most-wanted by the Iraqi interior ministry after a series of terrorist attacks which won him the moniker “The Ghost”.

It has since become one of the main Jihadist groups fighting government forces in Syria and is mainly composed of foreign fighters.