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Syria war death toll tops 300,000: Observatory

More than 300,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict since March 2011, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday (September 13th).

According to the latest Observatory toll, more than 86,000 civilians were among the 301,781 people killed, AFP reported.

The civilian toll includes 15,099 children and 10,018 women, the monitoring group said.

Opposition fighters accounted for 52,359 of those killed, along with 59,006 Syrian soldiers and 48,048 pro-regime fighters from countries including Iraq, Iran and Lebanon as well as Syria.

Extremist fighters from the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) and former al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front accounted for 52,031 of the dead.

The Observatory said another 3,645 victims could not be identified.

The figure is an increase of nearly 9,000 on the last death toll published by the Observatory in early August.

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