Syria’s Civil War has Cost Nearly Half A Million Lives

The civil war in Syria has claimed nearly 494,438 lives in ten years. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports this after a new count.

More than a year ago, the death toll was 384,000.

The civil war started during the Arab Spring in 2011 after peaceful protests against the authoritarian rule of President Bashar al-Assad. The government army is fighting rebels and jihadist groups.

11 million people have been displaced, almost half the population that Syria had before the outbreak of the war.