TEHRAN, March 13, YJC - 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 death toll.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had recorded the deaths of 321,358 people since the conflict broke out in March 2011.
"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 Observatory said just over 60,900 government soldiers were killed.
Fighting also killed nearly 55,000 rebels and just as many extremists, most of them from the Islamic State group or former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham 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.
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