More than 4,360 people were killed in Syria during the year 2023, an annual toll of a conflict that has exhausted the country since 2011, according to what the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced on Sunday.
The year 2022 recorded about 3,800 deaths, an annual toll that was the lowest since the outbreak of conflict in the country in 2011, according to the Observatory.
The 2023 toll includes 1,889 civilians, including 241 women and 307 children.
Among the dead were also 898 members of the regime forces and about 600 fighters from groups loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities.
The rest of the dead are distributed among ISIS members, opposition factions, the so-called “Syrian Democratic Forces”, Kurdish units and the formations working with them.
The Observatory reported that 3 people, including a child, were killed in a missile attack carried out by regime forces yesterday evening, Saturday, on a popular market and residential areas in the city of Idlib, and 14 other people, including children, were injured.
A popular revolution broke out against the regime in March 2011, which was met with military repression, turning into an armed conflict and intervention by several parties and countries that continues to this day.
In September 2018, Ankara and Moscow concluded an additional memorandum of understanding to strengthen the ceasefire in Idlib, which is included in the de-escalation zones agreement between Turkey, Russia, and Iran during the Astana meetings in 2017, but the regime intensified its attacks on the region in 2019.
On May 5, 2020, Turkey and Russia reached a new ceasefire agreement in Idlib, but regime forces violate it from time to time.
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2023-12-31 14:25:10
