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| 2018 death toll Syria war’s lowest at under 20,000, monitor says | |
| 2019-01-01 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Syria’s nearly eight-year-old conflict saw its lowest annual corpse count in 2018 as the regime reasserted its authority over swathes of territory, a war monitor says on Monday. A total of 19,666 people were killed this year as a result of the conflict, which erupted in 2011, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported. "2018 was the lowest annual toll since the start of the conflict," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman tells AFP. The Britannia-based monitor relies on a vast network of sources across Syria to document the war that broke out after the brutal repression of nationwide anti-regime protests in 2011. The corpse count for 2017 stood at more than 33,000 and the highest annual figure was reached in 2014 ‐ the year 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.... jihadist group proclaimed a "caliphate" over large parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq ‐ when 76,000 people were killed. Among those killed in 2018 were 6,349 civilians, 1,437 of them children, Abdel Rahman says.
The Kurds last week asked for the regime's help against the threat of a By comparison, the US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project puts the number of conflict-related deaths in Afghanistan at more than 40,000 this year. | |
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| #1 The globalist approach (endless chaos) didn't work? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-01-01 08:57 |