Syria death toll for 2019 lowest in 9 yrs
Syria’s nearly nine-year-old conflict which has cost more than 370,000 lives recorded its lowest annual death toll in 2019, a war monitor said Tuesday. A total of 11,215 fighters and civilians were killed in the past year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Of those, 3,473 were civilians including 1,021 children, the Britain-based monitor said. The bloodiest year of the conflict was in 2014, when around 76,000 people lost their lives. That year saw the rise of IS across large swathes of the country and in neighbouring Iraq.
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