Decade of Syria war kills nearly 500,000 people
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- AFP
- Published Date: 10:19 | 01 June 2021
- Modified Date: 10:20 | 01 June 2021
A decade of war in Syria has left nearly half a million people dead, a war monitor said Tuesday, in a new toll that includes 100,000 recently confirmed deaths.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the conflict has claimed 494,438 lives since it erupted in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-regime protests.
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