number of deaths in the syrian civil war
between 353,593 and 498,593
title: Casualties of the Syrian Civil War text: Casualties of the Syrian Civil War Estimates of deaths in the Syrian Civil War, per opposition activist groups, vary between 367,965 and 560,000. On 23 April 2016, the United Nations and Arab League Envoy to Syria put out an estimate of 400,000 that had died in the war. UNICEF reported that over 500 children had been killed by early February 2012. Another 400 children were reportedly arrested and tortured in Syrian prisons. Both claims were contested by the Syrian government. The United Nations stated that by the end of April 2014, 8,803 children had been killed, while the Oxford Research title: Casualties of the Syrian Civil War text: Group said that a total of 11,420 children died in the conflict by late November 2013. By early December 2018, the opposition activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported the number of children killed in the conflict had risen to 20,819, while at the same time 13,084 women were also killed. Additionally, over 600 detainees and political prisoners died under torture by the start of 2012. By February 2017, Amnesty International estimated between 5,000 and 13,000 people had been executed in government prisons. All of the following totals include civilians, rebels and government forces: At the start of title: Casualties of the Syrian Civil War text: been 65,108 foreign rebel and ISIL fighters, at least 280 anti-government suicide bombers and 246 rebel child soldiers that have been killed in the conflict. Additionally, 48 foreign pro-Kurdish fighters died. 65,156 foreign anti-government fighters have been killed by early December 2018, according to the SOHR. 9,936 foreign opposition fighters were killed by late December 2013, according to the "Jihadist Salafist Movement in Jordan", with the nationalities being as follows: 1,902 Tunisians, 1,807 Libyans, 1,432 Iraqis, 828 Lebanese, 821 Egyptians, 800 Palestinians, 714 Saudis, 571 Yemenis, 412 Moroccans, 274 Algerians, 202 Jordanians, 91 Omanis, 71 Kuwaitis, 42 Somalis, 30 Albanians title: Casualties of the Syrian Civil War text: Azerbaijanis, 300 Tajiks, 160 Germans, 150 Kyrgyz, 143 Britons, 126 Albanians, 106 Belgians, 84 Australians, 65 Bosniaks, 50 Americans, 49 Swedes, 43 Georgians, 39 Dutch, 37 Italians, 34 Malaysians, 30 Norwegians, 27 Danes, 23 Canadians, 21 Austrians, 15–20 Finns, 16 Indians, 13 Afghans, 5 Iranians, 4 Irishmen, 4 Israeli-Arabs, 4 Maldivians, 3 Chinese, 3 Pakistanis, 2–3 Filipinos, 2 Eritreans, 2 Indonesians, 2 Mauritanians, 2 South Africans, 2 Spaniards, 2 Uzbeks, 1 Armenian, 1 Bulgarian, 1 Chadian, 1 Japanese, 1 Kazakh, 1 Romanian and 1 Slovenian. 376 foreign soldiers have been killed during the conflict, mostly in the border areas with title: Human rights violations during the Syrian Civil War text: refugees), 6.3 million were internally displaced within Syria, and 13.5 million required humanitarian assistance. The war has been marked by "devastation and extreme suffering among civilians" and international aid groups "have long denounced the indiscriminate brutality" that has characterized the conflict. In March 2017, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 465,000 people had died in the conflict, of which 96,000 civilians, and an additional 145,000 civilians were missing. The SOHR attributed 83,500 civilian deaths to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and its allies, including Russia; 7,000 to Syrian rebels and allied forces; 3,700 to Islamic State