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According to the Syrian opposition website Syrian Martyrs, the conflict's documented death toll was 151,888 up to 30 April 2016, which was the time of its last update. [26] The number includes 35,859 rebel combatants but does not include members of the government security forces or pro-government foreign combatants who have died. [27]
On 12 February, a car carrying pro-regime soldiers hit a mine planted by ISIS in the Hama countryside, resulting in the deaths of four and injuring two others. [39] On 13 February, nine SAA soldiers were killed in an ISIS attack on a Syrian military position in the Duwaizin area in eastern Hama countryside. [40]
On 2 January 2013, the United Nations stated that 60,000 had been killed since the civil war began, with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay saying "The number of casualties is much higher than we expected, and is truly shocking". [250] Four months later, the UN's updated figure for the death toll had reached 80,000. [251]
Syria's civil war has exploded back into life after Islamist rebels launched a lightning offensive on the northern city of Aleppo. ... the U.N. has documented more than 350,000 deaths but says ...
What happened in Syria's civil war? The war in Syria began in 2011 when a pro-democracy uprising calling for the end of Assad's long reign escalated quickly into a brutal civil war. Since then ...
The following is a timeline of the Syrian civil war from November 2024. Information about aggregated casualty counts is found in casualties of the Syrian civil war.. On 27 November 2024, a coalition of Syrian opposition groups called the Military Operations Command [1] led by Islamist Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched a lightning offensive [2] against pro-government Syrian Arab Army (SAA ...
This meeting, Nour said, would be aimed at finding a longer-term solution to Syria's 13-year-old simmering civil war – in particular its underpinning by non-state actors such as Hezbollah at a ...
The death toll was updated in mid-December to more than 900 after the discovery of a mass grave containing 230 bodies. [111] Other sources put the death toll above 1,000. [112] It was considered the largest massacre committed by ISIS in Syria at the time. On 28 August 2014, Islamic State militants massacred dozens of captured Syrian soldiers ...