(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Syria's civil war has killed more than 200,000 people in less than four years, a monitoring group said yesterday, adding that most were fighters from the two sides. "We have documented the killing of 202,354 people since March 2011," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman said, adding that more than 130,000 of them were combatants. "Of the total, 63,074 of the killed were civilians, including 10,377 children," said Abdel Rahman. "Among the anti-regime fighters, 37,324 were Syrian rebels, while 22,624 were non-Syrian jihadists," he added. "On the regime side, there were 44,237 soldiers, 28,974 members of the (paramilitary) National Defence Force, 624 members of (Lebanon's Shia) Hezbollah, and 2,388 pro-regime Shia fighters from beyond Syria and Lebanon," Abdel Rahman said. Another 3,011 were unidentified, he added. He also said some 200,000 people are being held in Syria's infamous jails, including 20,000 who have gone missing entirely.
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