Syria’s war killed at least 3,000 persons, including 955 civilians in September, the deadliest month of the conflict this year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said today.

 

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been killed and millions displaced since the war erupted in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests.

 

It has since spiralled into a complex conflict involving world powers, with Russia-backed regime forces and a US- supported alliance separately battling the Islamic State in the country.

 

The 955 civilians killed in September included 207 children, said the Britain-based Observatory, which relies on a wide network of sources inside Syria for its information.

 

“More than 70% of the civilians were killed in regime and Russian air strikes, or in air raids of the international coalition” fighting IS, the monitor’s head Rami Abdel Rahman said.

Source: AFP