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ISIL kills nearly 2,000 Syrians since June: Group

A UK-based Syrian opposition group says the ISIL Takfiri group has killed nearly 2,000 people in Syria, the majority of them civilians, over the past six months.

ISIL executed 1,878 people in Syria between June 28 when it announced its ‘caliphate’ and December 27, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.

The UK-based opposition group added that the victims were either shot dead, beheaded or stoned to death in several Syrian provinces.

It noted that of those killed, 1,175 civilians, including women and children, were killed by ISIL in the provinces of Aleppo, Deir Ezzor, Hama, Homs, Hasakah and Raqqa.

The report said the dead included 930 members of the Shaitat Sunni tribe that picked up arms against the ISIL militants in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor in the summer.

The so-called observatory further said the ISIL terrorists “executed” 502 soldiers and pro-Syrian government fighters in the same period.

The group added that the Takfiris also killed nearly 120 of its own members for trying to flee to their homeland and 80 members of the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, al-Nusra Front.

The ISIL terrorists control some parts of Iraq and Syria. They are engaged in crimes against humanity in the areas under their control. They have terrorized and killed people of all communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.

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