Rights Group: IS Executed Nearly 2,000 in Syria in 6 Months

The Islamic State militant group has killed 1,878 people in Syria during the past six months, the majority of them civilians, a British-based Syrian monitoring organization said on Sunday. Islamic State militants also killed 120 of its own members, most of them foreign fighters trying to return home, in the past two months, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The militant group has taken vast parts of Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate in territory under its...

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