{"id":3264,"date":"2015-01-02T08:22:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T08:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2015-01-02T08:22:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T08:22:45","slug":"year-2014-saw-harvest-of-death-in-syria-and-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/year-2014-saw-harvest-of-death-in-syria-and-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2014 saw harvest of death in Syria and Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/syria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1175\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/syria.jpg\" alt=\"syria\" width=\"467\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/syria.jpg 467w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/syria-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/a>More than 76,000 people were killed in Syria\u2019s conflict in 2014, including thousands of children, making it the deadliest year in the nearly four-year war, a monitoring group said Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of 76,021 people. Of the total, 17,790 were civilians, including 3,501 children.<br \/>\nAdditionally, more than 15,000 rebel fighters were killed, as were nearly 17,000 militants.<br \/>\nAt least 22,627 government forces \u2014 both soldiers and members of pro-government militias \u2014 were killed, the Britain-based group said.<br \/>\nLast year\u2019s figure compared with 73,447 in 2013, another 49,294 in 2012 and 7,841 in 2011.<br \/>\nMore than 200,000 people have been killed since the conflict began in March 2011 with anti-regime protests that spiraled into a war after a government crackdown.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, violence in Iraq killed more than 15,000 civilians and security personnel in 2014, government figures showed Thursday, making it one of the deadliest years since the 2003 US-led invasion.<br \/>\nFigures compiled by the health, interior and defense ministries put the death toll at 15,538, compared with 17,956 killed in 2007 during the height of Sunni-Shiite sectarian killings.<br \/>\nLast year\u2019s toll was also more than double the 6,522 people killed in 2013.<br \/>\nIraq Body Count, a Britain-based NGO that tracks violence in Iraq, gave an even higher toll for 2014, saying that 17,073 civilians were killed, which would make it the third deadliest year since 2003.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/year-2014-saw-harvest-of-death-in-syria-and-iraq\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 76,000 people were killed in Syria\u2019s conflict in 2014, including thousands of children, making it the deadliest year in the nearly four-year war, a monitoring group said Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of 76,021 people. Of the total, 17,790 were civilians, including 3,501 children. 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