(Syrian Observatory for Human Rights) The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights can document the execution of 91 people in Syria between July 29 and August 29 by Islamic State. Those executed include 32 civilians, including 2 women; 39 of its own militants, including a journalist; 11 fighters from the rebel and Islamist factions; and at least 9 members from regime forces and allied militiamen, most of them beheaded. The executions were carried out for sorcery, insulting God, sodomy, adultery, banditry, joining and cooperating with the awakening movements, cooperating with the Crusader coalition, mischief on earth, and cooperating with the Nusayri (Alawite) regime forces.
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