The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights -- a British-based war monitor -- said today (March 12, 2018) about 511,000 people have been killed in the Syrian war since it began seven years ago, according to the Reuters website.
The Observatory, which tracks death tolls using a network of contacts inside Syria, said it had identified more than 350,000 of those killed, and the remainder were cases where it knew deaths had occurred but did not know the victims' names.
The Syrian civil war began after mass protests on March 15, 2011, and has continued to the present day.
About 85 percent of the dead were civilians killed by the forces of the Syrian government and its allies, the Observatory said.
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