Eyewitnesses said that the executed militants fled from the battles raging in Iraq's Northern Nineveh Province and the ISIL announced their charge as "high treason", ARA News reported.
"Those fighters had left their posts in Mosul city without permission, heading to the Syrian border," media activist Abdullah al-Malla told ARA News.
The militants were arrested by their comrades in ISIL's proclaimed police also known as Diwan al-Hisba, shortly after they crossed into Syria's Eastern Deir Ezzur province.
The Iraqi Army, backed by Peshmerga forces and the US-led coalition, recently launched a major offensive to push ISIL out of Northern Iraq.
"They were arrested at al-Bukamal border crossing," an informed source in Deir Ezzur told ARA News.
The seven militants were convicted by an ISIL court, which issued a statement castigating the condemned men for spreading dissent within the militants' ranks.
They were executed by firing squad in front of hundreds of onlookers.
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