ISIS has executed more than 3,500 people in Syria, including nearly 2,000 civilians, since declaring its "caliphate" in June last year, a monitor said Sunday.<br />In the last month alone ISIS executed 53 people including 35 civilians in areas it controls in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.<br />AFP reports that the new figures from the Britain-based Observatory bring to 3,591 the number of people executed by ISIS in Syria since it declared its Islamic "caliphate" after seizing control of large parts of the country.<br />The new toll includes 1,945 civilians, including 103 women and 77 children, with civilians defined as those who are not taking part in the fighting.<br />The United Nations has accused it of "crimes against humanity."
