Syria: Over 520,000 dead from the civil war that has lasted for 14 years

At least 528,500 people were killed in the devastating war in which it broke out in 2011 and the savage repression by the Bashar al-Assad regime of a popular uprising in the country. Over 181,939 civilians are among the more than 528,592 people killed in these 14 years of civil war in Syria. Among the victims are at least 15,207 women and 25,284 children, as well as fighters, according to the Observatory. CORVERSE This account includes deaths from 2024 as well as thousands of other deaths during the years of the war OSDH was only recently able to verify. Overall for the year 2024, marked in December with the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, OSDH reported the death of 6,777 people. Among them, 3.598 civilians, including 240 women and 337 “children under the age of 18”. In addition, 3,179 militants were killed from the ranks of different warring parties, including the forces of the “former regime”, “Islamist armed groups” and jihadists, according to the same source. For 2023, the Syrian Observatory had reported 4,360 dead, including nearly 1,900 civilians. CORVERSE With the violent repression of a popular uprising on 15 March 2011, the civil war spread across the country and over the years it was complicated by the intervention and involvement of international actors and the influx of jihadists from all over the world. The entry into Damascus on 8 December forces to coalition armed groups under the Islamist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sam (HTS) marked the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime by putting an end to over half a century’s reign of his family clan. OSDH, as of 2011, has been able to verify with absolute certainty the deaths of more than 64,000 people in prisons of the former regime, deaths attributed to “suffering, medical negligence or inhumane detention conditions”.