UN Says Syria Dead Double to 191,000 in Forgotten War
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The number of Syrian dead has doubled to at least 191,000 over 12 months with no end in sight to the conflict that fueled the rise of Islamic extremism spreading across the Middle East, the United Nations said.
The number of deaths cover the period from March 2011 to April 2014 and are probably underestimated, the UN’s Geneva-based human-rights office said today in a 26-page report that based its estimates on data collected by the Syrian government and rights groups. The last UN report, issued in June 2013, estimated that 93,000 had been killed.