The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, has announced on Wednesday that more than 500 people have been killed so far in the ongoing battle against Russian-backed government forces and Islamist jihadists in Syria's Aleppo province, according to The Times of Israel.
The monitor, which utilizes a network of sources in Aleppo itself, further stated that dozens of civilians are among the victims of the bloody conflict. Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman has announced the breakdown of the rather massive number of casualties.
"At least 143 pro-regime fighters, 274 rebels and foreign jihadists, and 89 civilians were killed from Feb. 1 until Tuesday night," he said, further stating that 14 Iranian troops and three fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement also lost their lives in the conflict, reports Pan-Armenian News.
Among those who died, most tragic of all would probably be the 23 children who were reported to have been killed in Russian air strikes since the offensive began on Feb. 1.
With the conflict in full swing, a new wave of refugees attempted to cross the border to Turkey. However, the Middle Eastern nation is already hosting 2.7 million Syrian refugees, and has effectively enacted a temporary ban on having more refugees enter the country, according to the AFP.
The Syrian conflict has killed more than 260,000 since it began back in 2011. It has been reported that about half of the country's population had been displaced by the conflict.
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