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IS kills over 3,000 people in past year in Syria: report

Xinhua, June 29, 2015 Adjust font size:

Islamic State (IS) militants have killed as many as 3,027 people since it announced its "caliphate" in Syria a year ago, a monitor group reported.

The toll include 1,787 civilians the IS militants killed in several Syrian cities, while the rest were government soldiers and members of rival rebel groups, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Sunday.

In the past year, the IS has kidnapped over 4,000 civilians from different provinces, said the London-based Observatory, which says it relies on a network of activists on the ground inside Syria.

The Obseervatory said the IS now controls 50 percent of Syria, with a presence in nine Syrian provinces, mainly Raqqa, the de facto capital of the IS, and areas in Deir al-Zour, Hasaka, Hama, Aleppo, and the countryside of Damascus.

Most of the country's oil and gas fields have also fallen to IS militants throughout the year, except for the two fields that are still under government control in the central province of Homs and two others under Kurdish fighters' control in northern Syria. Endit