Casualties of the Syrian civil war
[1] As of February 2015, the UNHCR has designated the conflict as the "world's worst humanitarian crisis", while the head of the UNHRC's commission for Syria stated the Syrian government was responsible for the majority of civilian casualties up to that point.[14] All of the following totals include civilians, rebels and government forces: The following figures were all compiled by the SOHR which is considered an authoritative source on the matter.[56][57] Additionally, the Action Group For Palestinians of Syria reported 21 Galilee Forces fighters had been killed and put the number of dead Free Palestine Movement members higher at 24.[2][14] 9,936 foreign opposition fighters were killed by late December 2013, according to the Jihadist Salafist Movement in Jordan, with the nationalities being as follows: 1,902 Tunisians, 1,807 Libyans, 1,432 Iraqis, 828 Lebanese, 821 Egyptians, 800 Palestinians, 714 Saudis, 571 Yemenis, 412 Moroccans, 274 Algerians, 202 Jordanians, 91 Omanis, 71 Kuwaitis, 42 Somalis, 30 Albanians and Caucasians, 21 Bahrainis, 9 Emiratis, 8 Qataris, 3 Sudanese and 1 Mauritanian.[106] The nationalities of some others are as follows: 2,960 Russians,[107][108] 403–453 Frenchmen,[109][110] 400 Turks,[111] 300 Azerbaijanis,[112] 300 Tajiks,[113] 220–380 Germans,[114] 183 Britons,[115][116] 168 Albanians,[117] 150 Belgians,[118] 150 Kyrgyz,[119] 95 Australians,[120] 88 Bosniaks,[121] 84 Indonesians,[122] 75 Danes,[123] 51 Americans,[124][125] 50 Swedes,[126] 43 Georgians,[127] 39 Dutch,[128] 37 Italians,[129] 36 Malaysians,[130] 31 Norwegians,[131] 23 Austrians,[132][133][134][135] 23 Canadians,[136][137] 15–20 Finns,[138] 16 Indians,[139] 13 Afghans,[75][140] 5 Iranians,[141][142][143] 4 Irishmen,[144] 4 Israeli-Arabs,[145] 4 Maldivians,[146] 3 Chinese,[147][148] 3 Pakistanis,[142] 2–3 Filipinos,[149] 2 Eritreans,[142] 2 Mauritanians,[150] 2 South Africans,[151] 2 Spaniards,[152] 2 Uzbeks,[75][153] 1 Armenian,[142] 1 Bangladeshi,[154] 1 Bulgarian,[153] 1 Chadian,[140] 1 Japanese,[155] 1 Kazakh,[156] 1 Romanian[152] and 1 Slovenian.[171] On 2 December, six soldiers were killed and one wounded in an ambush by unknown gunmen in the Tal Hamra area of Ras Baalbek, near the border with Syria.[174] 197 Russian servicemen killed Following the start of Russia's intervention in Syria against rebel and ISIL forces at the end of September 2015, 116 soldiers had died by 23 February 2019.[176] Almost half of the deaths were attributed to the crash of an An-26 on approach to Khmeimim air base in Latakia, and the accidental shooting down of a reconnaissance plane by Syrian air-defenses.[182][183][184] On 22 February 2015, a soldier was killed in an accident during a military incursion into Syria to evacuate Turkish troops at the Tomb of Suleyman Shah.[189] Following the start of Turkey's ground incursion into Syria against ISIL and Kurdish forces in late August 2016, 72 soldiers had died by 29 March 2017.[199] However, the Ministry of Defence later clarified it was a case of friendly fire, caused by the accidental detonation of explosives carried by another coalition soldier.[210] In January 2024, the US Central Command acknowledged of the death of three US soldiers and injury of 25 others in an attack by a drone on Al-Tanf garrison near the border triangle between Syria, Iraq and Jordan.[211] The SOHR considers the following figures on ISIL, al-Nusra and other rebel fatalities to be higher due to the groups' efforts to hide their losses.According to the SOHR, U.S.-led Coalition airstrikes have killed 12,868 people across Syria, of which: 9,176 dead were ISIL fighters, 374 Al-Nusra Front militants and other rebels, 169 government soldiers and 2,679 civilians.[212][2] According to the SOHR, Russian airstrikes in Syria killed more than 21,300 people, of whom 6,244 were ISIL fighters, 6,303 militants from the Al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front and other rebel forces, 8,816 civilians and at least five Turkish soldiers.[225] Killings of medical workers since the start of the Syrian Civil War, according to a PHR summary[226] A February 2015 joint report by the Center for Public Health and Human Rights of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Syrian American Medical Society asserted that "Syria is the most dangerous place in the world to be a doctor".[228] Physicians for Human Rights has been tracking the medical personnel deaths in Syria, though they state that "these numbers are conservative given the difficulties in reporting during a war."[231] Towards the end of May 2020, the SNHR put the death toll at 855 medical personnel, of which 669 were killed by government forces, 68 by the Russian military, 40 by ISIL, and 36 by the rebels.[232] Médecins Sans Frontières has reported that suppliers in Syria refuse to sell essential medical supplies such as gauze and surgical threads to doctors due to government intimidation, with this being a particular problem for besieged areas.
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