Nearly 400,000 people died in the last 10 years in Syria’s civil war, according to NGO

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimated this Sunday at about 400,000 the number of deaths in Syria, of which more than 117,000 were civilians, since the outbreak on March 15, 2011 of the popular revolt that later led to the civil war.

The UK-based NGO with a wide network of collaborators on the ground, accounted for 388,652 deaths in the last decade, an estimate that does not take into account the nearly 88,000 other people who lost their lives in prisons and detention centers. government detention, according to a statement.

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Of the total balance, 117,388 were civilians, including 22,254 children, most of whom perished in actions of forces loyal to the Syrian president, Bashar al Asad, the first cause of deaths followed by the operations of the opposing factions, the Russian aviation and, finally, the Turkish.

Likewise, Syrian troops suffered 68,308 casualties, while the Civil Defense conglomerate and groups and militias loyal to Damascus lost 52,568 of their members, compared to 54,779 of opposition, rebel and Islamist factions and formations, according to the Observatory.

Among the terrorists, the Islamic State (IS), which between 2014 and 2019 self-proclaimed a “” caliphate in Syria and Iraq, lost 40,515 of its fighters, while the Levant Liberation Organization, of which the former affiliate is part Al Qaeda’s Syrian formerly known as Al Nusra Front, and its affiliates suffered 27,744 casualties.

10 years of civil war in Syria. (AFP).

The Levant Liberation Organization currently dominates much of Idlib province, the last opposition stronghold in the northwest of the Arab country.

As for the Kurdish forces, which gained territory throughout the decade in the northeast of the nation and which fight on the side of the international coalition led by the United States against the IS, the non-governmental organization placed 12,878 deaths in the note. between their ranks.

Tomorrow, Monday, it will be ten years since the beginning of the revolution against the Assad government and the subsequent outbreak of the conflict, which has since forced 6.2 million people to internally displace and about 5.6 million to leave the country entirely, with more than 80% of the population living in poverty.