Head Of ISIS Official Found With Cigarette In Mouth

A senior leader in the Islamic State's self-declared police force has been beheaded in Syria, says a monitoring group cited by Reuters.

The Islamic State, also called ISIS, has carried out numerous beheadings in its recent operations in Syria and Iraq.

The man was found near a power plant in the eastern Syrian city of al-Mayadeen in Deir-al-Zor province, said the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Tuesday.

The deceased was an Egyptian national known as the...