Beirut: Daesh has executed more than 90 people, a third of them civilians, over the past month in areas of war-torn Syria under its control, a monitoring group said Sunday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 32 civilians were among 91 people executed for “crimes” in the terrorists group’s self-proclaimed caliphate between July 29 and August 29.

The toll included Daesh members, rebel fighters and forces loyal to President Bashar Al Assad.

Witchcraft, homosexual acts and working with the US-led coalition fighting Daesh in Iraq and Syria are among “crimes” punishable by death for the group.

Since it announced its “caliphate” in June 2014, Daesh has swept across Syria, seizing swathes of land in central Hama and Homs provinces, Deir Al Zor and Hasakeh in the east, and the north’s Raqqa and Aleppo.

According to the Britain-based Observatory, the latest monthly toll has brought to 3,156 people the number of Daesh executions in Syria since the caliphate was announced.

The number includes 1,841 civilians.

Daesh has become notorious for its gruesome displays of violence, including beheadings, stoning and pushing victims off rooftops.

On Saturday, Daesh detained at least 70 Iraqis in a small town in Anbar and tied dozens of residents, including tribal leaders, to streetlight poles as a punishment, security officials said.

The crackdown followed a rare street demonstration on Saturday to protest the extremist group’s execution of a local resident, they said. The protest by hundreds of residents in Rutbah, in Anbar province, was triggered by the execution earlier on Saturday of Muneer Al Kobeisi, a civil servant, for killing a Daesh member. The killing was part of a long-running blood feud between two local clans.

Eid Amash, a spokesman for Anbar’s provincial government, confirmed Al Kobeisi’s execution and the subsequent protest.

Relying on sketchy information from Rutbah, in Iraq’s far west near the Jordanian border, the officials said they didn’t know the whereabouts of the detained residents. The militants, they said, tied two residents to each light pole and that the town was gripped by fears that the group would carry out mass executions.

Elsewhere in Anbar, much of which is under Daesh control, a roadside bomb on Saturday hit a border guard convoy making its way to the border crossing of Trebil on the Jordanian border, security officials said.

Five officers were killed in the attack - which bore the hallmarks of Daesh, whose militants are active in the area near the Jordanian and Syrian borders.

The officials also said a pair of roadside bombs killed five people and injured 19 south and west of Baghdad on Saturday. Also in the capital, assailants using pistols fitted with silencers killed two people in the Jihad neighborhood in western Baghdad before they fled in a car.

All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.