The #Shaitat_clan is one of the largest clans in #DeirEzzor province, northeastern #Syria. Its deeply-rooted history spans decades of settlement along the eastern bank of the #EuphratesRiver.

The 2014 ISIS massacre of the #Shaitat_clan in Syria's Deir ez-Zor province has been largely under-researched and under-documented, both in terms of context and of the number of victims.