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Doctors and medical staff treating injured rebel fighters and civilians in Aleppo. Estimates of the total number of deaths in the Syrian Civil War, by various war monitors, range between 580,000 as of May 2021, [1] and approximately 617,910 as of March 2024. [2]
Syrian government forces have pursued mass-killings of civilian populations as part of its war-strategy throughout the conflict; and is responsible for inflicting more than 90% of the total civilian deaths in the Syrian civil war. [citation needed] Between 2011 and 2021, a minimum of 306,000 civilian deaths are estimated to have occurred by the UN.
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UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights group also reported numerous attacks against mainly Alawite civilians and former security personnel in the region, carried out by unidentified gunmen, resulting in the deaths of more than 334 civilians, 146 of whom were confirmed to have been killed in sectarian violence. [18] [19] [20] [15] [21]
On 22 December, two civilians were killed following Turkish artillery shelling of Kobani. [18] Turkish and SNA attacks on the Kobani countryside and Tishrin Dam continued into 2025 as part of the broader Turkish offensive in northern Syria. The attacks killed 121 civilians in December 2024 and January 2025. [34] [35]
As the Syrian war entered its tenth year on 1 April, the monthly death toll recorded by SOHR in March was the lowest, due to a fall in the number of civilian casualties. SOHR said a total of 103 civilians had been killed, with 51 of them dying as a result of air strikes and shellings. [ 69 ]
By August 2023, Airwars estimated 8,198–13,258 civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria due to Coalition airstrikes, including 1,725–2,367 children, 1,120-1,460 women, and 3,722 named victims. The Coalition's own estimate of civilian deaths was 1,417. Coalition airstrikes also wounded between 5,883 and 9,111 civilians. [395]
[98] [99] By this time, the UN estimated the number of internally displaced civilians at over 160,000 [100] and the Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that over 214 civilians had been killed, including 65 children and 43 women, and that the government and its allies had used 258 surface-to-surface rockets, 293 artillery shells, and at ...