In a report published Monday (August 29th), the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it could document the execution of 2,369 civilians by the hands of the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) since June 2014.

This number includes 85 children and 130 women, the Observatory said, adding that the civilians killed had been beheaded, stoned, thrown from high places or set on fire in the provinces of Damascus, Rif Dimashq, Deir Ezzor, al-Raqa, al-Hasakeh, Aleppo, Homs and Hama.

Included in the same toll are more than 930 members of al-Shaitat tribe in eastern Deir Ezzor, 223 Kurdish civilians from Kobani and nearby Barkh Botan, and 46 civilians of various ethnic groups who were set alight and beheaded in the village of al-Mabojah east of al-Salamiyah.

In the month from July 29th to August 29th this year alone, the Observatory said it could document the execution of 44 people, including one woman, in ISIL-held areas in Deir Ezzor, Damascus, Aleppo, al-Hasakeh and Homs.

In total, the Observatory said, it has been able to document ISIL's execution of 4,401 people, including civilians, opposition and regime fighters and their allies, as well as members of its own group, since June 29, 2014.