The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a wide network of sources inside Syria, said the new figure included almost 117,000 civilians, among them more than 22,000 children.
The Observatory's previous tally was issued in January and stood at more than 380,000.
The fighting, which erupted in 2011 after the brutal repression of anti-government protests, has largely abated this year as a ceasefire held in northwestern Syria and attention turned to containing the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...pandemic.
The latest toll included more than 130,500 pro-government fighters, among them foreigners.
More than half of those were Syrian soldiers, while 1,703 were from the Lebanese Shiite group
Hizbullah...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
whose members have been fighting in Syria since 2013.
The conflict has claimed the lives of more than 57,000 non-jihadist rebel fighters.
It has also killed more than 67,500 jihadists, mainly from the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS), a group dominated by ex-members of Syria's former al-Qaeda affiliate.
More than 12,500 Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces fighters have been killed in battles against IS and
The Observatory's toll does not include some 88,000 people it says died of torture in government-run prisons, nor thousands who were kidnapped during the conflict and are still missing.
After turning the tide of the war with Russian and Iranian support since 2015, the Syrian government now controls around two-thirds of the country.
Among the regions still beyond its reach are the last rebel enclave of Idlib in the northwest,
The war has forced more than half the country's pre-war population to flee their homes.
Some 6.7 million Syrians remained displaced inside the country, while 5.5 million are registered as refugees abroad, according to the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
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