...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
group.
Syria’s war has killed just over 320,000 people since it erupted six years ago, a monitor said Monday, noting that a fragile ceasefire had helped to slow the rising corpse count.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had recorded the deaths of 321,358 people since the conflict broke out in March 2011 with protests against
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now...
The toll represented an increase of about 9,000 since December, when government ally Russia and rebel backer
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
brokered a nationwide cessation of hostilities.
"There have been fewer people dying in the three months since the ceasefire was put into place," said Observatory Rami Abdel Rahman.
"The deaths haven’t stopped, but they have been slower in the past few months," he said.
The new toll included more than 96,000 civilians, among them over 17,400 children and nearly 11,000 women.
The Observatory said just over 60,900 government soldiers were killed, as well as 45,000 Syrian Lions of Islam and over 8,000 imported muscle loyal to Assad’s government.
Fighting also killed nearly 55,000 rebels and just as many jihadist fighters, most of them from the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group or former al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham
...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant...
Front, but also from smaller groups.
Abdel Rahman told AFP that his team had worked hard to verify the identities of 4,000 victims whose identities had been unknown.
"Most were civilians, but there were approximately 300 rebel fighters among them," he said.