How many have died in syria

The war, which spiralled out of an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule, sparked the world's biggest refugee crisis. Syria's neighbours host 5. Assad has recovered most of Syria, but significant areas remain outside his control: Turkish forces are deployed in much of the north and northwest - the last major bastion of anti-Assad rebels - and U.

Bachelet said the previous update by her office, in August , reported that at least , people had been killed in the war. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that , people have been killed in the war and that it is examining a further , cases. France 24 is not responsible for the content of external websites. 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 , recently confirmed deaths. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the conflict has claimed , lives since it erupted in with the brutal repression of anti-government protests.

The previous tally, issued by the Observatory in March this year, stood at more than , dead. The war monitor has since confirmed an additional , deaths following months of documentation efforts supported by its network of sources on the ground. Of the recently confirmed fatalities, more than 42, are civilians, most of them killed under torture in Syrian regime prisons, according to the monitor.

Abdel Rahman said that a lull in the fighting allowed his organisation to investigate reports of deaths that had not been included in the overall tally for lack of documentation. The UN officially stopped counting deaths in the conflict in January because, it said, it had become impossible to accurately document the constantly growing toll, relying as it had been on the co-operation of a diminishing number of non-governmental groups on the ground to do so.

In March this year, when the war reached its tenth year, the UN Human Rights Council HRC requested the human rights office resume trying to determine the number of people killed. Reporting to the HRC on Friday, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said "complex and painstaking work" had established that , identified individuals - civilians and combatants - had been killed between March and March Ms Bachelet said of those deaths, women accounted for about eight per cent, as did children.

Ms Bachelet pointed out that the headline figure was not "a complete number of conflict-related killings She said records with only partial information had been excluded from the toll, indicating a wider number of killings which have yet to be documented, along with many other cases where victims have been killed without a trace.

BBC correspondent Bethany Bell says establishing the true scale of deaths is a complicated and difficult undertaking, but UN officials say it is crucial to enable people to seek accountability. It is also part of efforts to account for the huge number of missing people, a cause of anguish and uncertainty for families and communities, she adds.