Report: Daesh executed 3,590 in Syria since declaring caliphate

Daesh has killed as many as 3,591 people in Syria since it announced its caliphate state in June last year, a new report revealed.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it documented the execution of 53 people last month, 35 of them being civilians, including four women as well as six Daesh members and three fighters from other factions, in addition to at least nine members of the Syrian regime’s forces and militants loyal to them.

The executions took place in the governorates of Hasaka, Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa, Aleppo and Homs for alleged apostasy, blasphemy, witchcraft, corruption, murder, banditry, homosexuality, adultery and other reasons.

Taking in to account last month’s executions, the total number of civilians and fighters killed by the group now stands at 3,591 since June 2014.

The group executed 1,945 civilians, including 77 children and 103 women.

According to the report, Daesh committed three massacres in the provinces of Deir ez-Zor, Aleppo and Hama where it executed more than 930 citizens in east Zour, 223 civilians in Kobani and the village of Barkh Botan and 46 civilians in the village of Al-Maboujah.