More than 330,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict since it started six years ago, around a third of them civilians, a monitor says.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says it has documented the deaths of 331,765 people across Syria since the conflict erupted in mid-March 2011 with anti-government protests.
Included in the overall death toll are 99,617 civilians, Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman tells AFP, adding that the figures were for the period between March 15, 2011 and July 15, 2017.
A total of 18,243 children and 11,427 women were among the civilians killed, the Observatory says.
The figures were the latest provided by the Observatory since March, when it said 320,000 people, including 96,000 civilians, had been killed.
— AFP
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