At least 3,825 people have been killed in Syria in 2022, the lowest annual death toll since the start of the Syrian conflict almost 12 years ago, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights’ count yesterday, the Observatory reported late last year. lowest death toll: more than 3,700 deaths recorded. However, he later documented the names of other dead people who died in 2021, bringing the death toll to 3,882.
The annual death toll, according to the Observatory, has declined since the halt of major Russian-backed military operations by Damascus, while Moscow, which has backed regime forces, especially in its air raids on areas beyond its control, has been preoccupied with the war in Ukraine since February. .
The Observatory reported that in 2022 there were 1,627 civilians, including 321 children, noting that among the civilian dead, 209 people, half of whom were children, died as a result of mine explosions and explosive remnants of war.
According to the Observatory, 627 regime fighters and 217 loyalist fighters have been killed this year.
The Observatory also counted the deaths of about 562 ISIS fighters, 387 Syrian Democratic Forces and collaborating militias, in addition to 240 opposition faction fighters, and 2014 recorded the conflict’s highest annual casualties, the Observatory reports. the murder of about 111 thousand people is documented.
Since it began in 2011, the conflict in Syria has claimed the lives of nearly half a million people, caused massive damage to infrastructure and the economy, and forced more than half of the population to flee inside or outside of Syria.