BEIRUT: More than 360,000 people have been killed across war-ravaged Syria in seven years, according to a monitoring group.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had recorded the deaths of 364,792 people, nearly a third of them civilians, since protests erupted in March 2011 against President Bashar al-Assad.
Here’s Syria in 2018 in pictures:
A picture taken on February 3, 2018, shows a Syrian men standing at the site of a downed Sukhoi-25 fighter jet in Syria’s northwest province of Idlib.
Rebel fighters shot down a Russian plane over Syria’s northwest Idlib province and captured its pilot, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
/ AFP PHOTO / OMAR HAJ KADOUR /
Turkish army tanks wait near the border before entering Syria, on January 21, 2018 at Hassa, in the Turkish province of Hatay, near the Syrian border.
Turkey on January 20 launched operation “Olive Branch” seeking to oust from the Afrin region of northern Syria the YPG which Ankara considers a terror group. / AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC
A picture taken on February 3, 2018, shows a Rebel fighter taking a picture of a downed Sukhoi-25 fighter jet in Syria’s northwest province of Idlib.
Rebel fighters shot down a Russian plane over Syria’s northwest Idlib province and captured its pilot, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
/ AFP PHOTO / OMAR HAJ KADOUR
Syrian civil defence volunteers prepare to wrap the body of a victim who died in a building collapse following reported regime bombardment in Haza, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. AFP
Syrian civil defence volunteers dig and search for survivors from beneath a collapsed building following reported regime bombardment in Haza. AFP
Syrian civil defence volunteers pray over the body of a victim who died in a building collapse. AFP
Restoring our faith in humanity, a selfless Sikh charity organisation Khalsa Aid in the month of March has come to the rescue of the people the war-torn Syria by has been tirelessly working by providing them food, clothing, shelter and medical facility and doing every bit to help to the Syrian refugees.
Bollywood actor and singer Diljit Dosanjh becomes emotional on Colors’ reality show ‘The Rising Star’ while talking atrocities being committed against children and women in Syria by the country’s forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad.
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Around 100 Syrians have been hospitalised with breathing difficulties in Aleppo after allegations rebels fired “toxic gas” on the regime-held city in November.
Injured children are treated at a hospital in Douma, a city in the Damascus district.
After the pictures of eight-year-old Maya Merhi’s difficulties sparked attention across the globe, the Turkish Red Crescent intervened.
Merhi had to struggle around a Syrian displaced persons camp in Serjilla on rudimentary artificial limbs. But now the girl, who was born with no legs due to a congenital condition, is walking on new prosthetics after undergoing treatment in Turkey.
In the month of July, refugee families head to their homes in Syria’s Qalamoun region after leaving the village of Arsal. Displaced Syrians who were wounded by shelling sit at a camp in Kafr Lusin near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey in the northern part of Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province on September 6, 2018.
Hundreds of civilians have fled villages near the front line in Syria’s Idlib province fearing an imminent regime assault on the country’s last major rebel bastion
A child sits in front of a tent at a camp for the displaced from the rebel-held Syrian province of Idlib, at the village of al-Ghadfa, southeast of the province on September 2, 2018.
The Syrian regime and its Russian ally are threatening an offensive to retake the northwestern province of Idlib, Syria’s last rebel bastion.
/ AFP PHOTO / Nazeer AL-KHATIB
A displaced Syrian girl who was wounded by shelling sits at a camp in Kafr Lusin near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey in the northern part of Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province on September 6, 2018.
Hundreds of civilians have fled villages near the front line in Syria’s Idlib province fearing an imminent regime assault on the country’s last major rebel bastion, a monitor said. / AFP PHOTO / Aaref WATAD
Syrian children stand outside a tent next to a metal crib at a camp for displaced civilians fleeing from advancing Syrian government forces, close to a Turkish military observation point near the village of Sarman in the rebel-held northwestern Idlib province on September 5, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Amer ALHAMWE
Displaced Syrians who were wounded by shelling sit at a camp in Kafr Lusin near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey in the northern part of Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province on September 6, 2018.
Hundreds of civilians have fled villages near the front line in Syria’s Idlib province fearing an imminent regime assault on the country’s last major rebel bastion, a monitor said. / AFP PHOTO / Aaref WATAD
A Syrian regime tractor cleans the wreckage at the Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus on October 09, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA
Destroyed buildings are seen in the Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus as the regime began to clean the wreckage from the camp on October 09, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA
A Syrian regime vehicle cleans the wreckage at the Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus on October 09, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA
