From Goran:
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights regularly publishes estimates of fatalities in the Syrian civil war. According to the latest tally more than 240 000 people lost their lives in the Syrian conflict. I know that these numbers can be questioned. But if you divide up the numbers in two periods, before and after Dec. 31 2013, you can make some interesting observations.
More than 110 000 have been killed in Syria in the past 20 months.
In the later period 77% of those killed were combatants (up from 65% in the earlier period). Only 7% of total fatalities were women or children (down from 9% in the earlier period). But SOHR statistics on civilian casualties may be an undercount since government “spies” etc. executed by rebels are counted as combatants.
Since 2014 90% of the fatalities on regime side has been Syrians (down from 99% in the earlier period). Less than 2% were from Hizbullah (0.5% in the earlier period).
Since 2014 foreign fighters have amounted to 58% of all rebel fatalities. That includes both fighters from the Islamic State and members of other rebel formations. In the earlier period only 24% were foreigners. This seems to be an accelerating trend. Since December 2014 70% of rebel fatalities have been foreigners.
Regards, Goran"
2011-13
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2014 - Aug 2015
| |
Total non-combatants
|
46 266
|
25 515
|
Children
|
7 014
|
4 950
|
Women
|
4 695
|
3 024
|
Men
|
34 557
|
17 541
|
Total rebels
|
29 083
|
47 676
|
Syrian fighters
|
22 170
|
20 214
|
Foreign fighters
|
6 913
|
27 462
|
Total regime
|
52 290
|
36 326
|
Regime soldiers
|
32 013
|
18 557
|
Militia/Shabiha/informers
|
19 729
|
14 110
|
Foreign fighters
|
286
|
3 018
|
Hezbollah fighters
|
262
|
641
|
Unidentified
|
2 794
|
431
|
TOTAL
|
130 433
|
109 948
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