We have to remember that so many of these people were innocents.
Syria, Iraq lost 91,000 lives in 2014
January 02, 2015
Damascus: More than 76,000 people were killed in Syria’s brutal conflict in 2014, making it the bloodiest year yet in the country’s nearly four-year war, a monitor said on Thursday.
The conflict that began in March 2011 shows no sign of abating, with President Bashar Al Assad making a rare public appearance on a front line overnight to bolster soldiers and pro-government fighters.
The war has become a multi-front conflict and contributed to the rise of jihadist groups such as the Islamic State.
It controls a swathe of territory in both Syria and neighbouring Iraq, where government figures showed at least 15,000 people were killed in 2014.
In Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, recorded 76,021 deaths last year.
The Britain-based group documented the deaths of nearly 18,000 civilians throughout 2014, among them 3,501 children.
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Syria, Iraq lost 91,000 lives in 2014
January 02, 2015
Damascus: More than 76,000 people were killed in Syria’s brutal conflict in 2014, making it the bloodiest year yet in the country’s nearly four-year war, a monitor said on Thursday.
The conflict that began in March 2011 shows no sign of abating, with President Bashar Al Assad making a rare public appearance on a front line overnight to bolster soldiers and pro-government fighters.
The war has become a multi-front conflict and contributed to the rise of jihadist groups such as the Islamic State.
It controls a swathe of territory in both Syria and neighbouring Iraq, where government figures showed at least 15,000 people were killed in 2014.
In Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, recorded 76,021 deaths last year.
The Britain-based group documented the deaths of nearly 18,000 civilians throughout 2014, among them 3,501 children.
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