BEIRUT — The conflict in
Syria killed 3,746
people in 2021, a monitor said Wednesday, significantly fewer than in 2020,
which had already seen the decade-old war's lowest death toll.
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According to figures compiled by the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 1,505 of them were civilians and among those 360
were children.
The figure is by far the lowest tally since
the start of the war in Syria and confirms a downward trend that saw 6,800
people killed last year and just over 10,000 in 2019.
The Observatory, an NGO based in the
UK but
with a network of sources in all regions of Syria, said 297 people were killed
in 2021 by landmines and various explosive remnants.
The Landmine Monitor said in November that
Syria had overtaken
Afghanistan as the country with the highest number of
recorded casualties from landmines and explosive remnants of war,
The fighting, which erupted in 2011 after
the brutal repression of anti-government protests, has abated over the past two
years.
Russian-backed government forces still
sporadically strike targets in the northwestern rebel enclave of Idlib but a
ceasefire deal has largely held.
Fighters from the Islamic State group who
went underground after their "caliphate" was crushed in 2019
have also carried out deadly hit-and-run attacks in eastern Syria.
The war in Syria has killed close to half a
million people and spurred the largest conflict-induced displacement since
World War II.
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