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The conflict in Syria has killed 387,000 people, according to a new toll issued by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the lowest annual increase since the conflict broke out more than nine years ago.
The observatory has documented the deaths of 116,911 civilians, including more than 22,149 children, since the conflict began on March 15, 2011.
More than 130,500 fighters from forces loyal to the Syrian regime have been killed, including more than 68,000 members of the Syrian forces, while 1,703 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, whose elements have been participating in battles in Syria since 2013, according to the balance sheet. observatory.
The death toll of non-Syrians loyal to the regime and militants from the Shiite community was 8,462, including 264 Russian soldiers and mercenaries, according to the observatory. 202 Turkish soldiers died.
Among forces opposing President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the conflict caused 54,668 deaths among fighters and Islamic factions and other factions and movements, while 2,630 deserters from regime forces were killed, according to the observatory’s number.
12,811 fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces and Kurdish units died in battles with the so-called “Islamic State” and the Turkish forces, while the death toll of non-Syrian fighters in the ranks of the Syrian Democratic Forces reached 930.
In addition, more than 67,500 jihadists were killed, including 27,772 fighters from the Al-Sham Liberation Headquarters (formerly Al-Nusra Front) and 40,161 ISIS fighters.
However, the annual death toll was the lowest this year, and the intensity of the fighting declined in 2020 in light of a ceasefire in the northwest of the country and efforts to combat the outbreak of the Covid- epidemic. 19.
The observatory announced in January that 380,636 people had died.
However, this new total does not count the 88,000 people who died under torture in the regime’s prisons, according to the Observatory, nor the thousands disappeared during the conflict.
After many areas fell outside of the regime’s control at the beginning of the conflict, the Damascus regime, with the support of Russia and Iran, managed to achieve successive victories on the ground over the past three years and now controls more than 70 percent of the country. country.
The areas that are still outside its control are Idlib in northwestern Syria, which is controlled by the fighting factions, the areas controlled by the Turkish forces and their loyalist factions along the northern borders, and the control areas Kurdish forces in the northeast of the country.
The conflict has displaced more than half of Syria’s population, with the United Nations counting 6.7 million displaced people and 5.5 million refugees.
