Islamic State militants executed 64 persons in Syria throughout April over charges ranging from adultery to collaboration with rival parties to the conflict, according to a Syrian war monitor.
The killings occurred from March 29th and until April 29th, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which said the victims included 51 Syrians, including one woman, five of the group’s own fighters, six government forces personnel and allied fighters and two members of rival militias.
Those executed were accused of adultery, smuggling civilians outside IS domains and collaboration with the U.S.-led international military coalition and Kurdish forces, SOHR reported. The killings were carried out at Raqqa, Hassakah, Deir Azzour, Homs, Aleppo and al-Badia provinces.
The recent executions raise the total of those executed by IS since 2014 to 4694 civilians, regime soldiers, fellow and rival combatants, according to the U.K-based organization. Those include 87 children and 134 women, according to the organization, which said the methods of executions varied from gunfire to decapitation, burning, stoning and throwing from a high point.
The United Nations said last week a total of 400.000 people died since a popular uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2011 turned into a regional conflict pitting government troops, dissident forces, regional and Western powers in a bloody war.
