Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Horror of Homs...
, a key monitoring group said Thursday.
"We have counted 222,271 deaths since the start of the revolt in March 2011," the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Based in Britannia, the Observatory uses a broad network of sources on the ground in Syria to gather information about the conflict.
Abdel Rahman said more than 67,000 of the dead were civilians, including more than 11,000 children.
Among dead combatants, nearly 47,000 were from pro-regime forces, including more than 3,000 imported muscle.
| Hizb'allah and Iranian troops, one assumes. Possibly Iran-trained Afghan Shiite paid volunteers, as well. |
...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
movement, a key backer of Assad.
Nearly 40,000 anti-regime fighters and about 28,000 foreign jihadists have been killed in the conflict, the Observatory said.
| Chlorinating the shallow end of the gene pool, as has been said. |
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group or other groups such as the al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
Front.
The toll does not include some 20,000 people listed as missing.
The Observatory says the full corpse count is likely to be much higher than the deaths it has been able to count.
| All those quaint ISIS mass graves that will only be found when "Caliphate" territory is reconquered. |