DAMASCUS
More than 158,000 civilians have been killed in Syria through attacks by the regime of Bashar al-Assad and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights.
The UK-registered organization said in a statement on Monday that offensives launched by regime forces and attacks by ISIL were increasing.
It said that, in the operations carried out by Assad forces, 124,752 men, 17,139 children and 15,278 women had been killed.
A total of 831 men, 137 children and 81 women died in attacks carried out by ISIL militants in the country.
The SNHR said a total of 158,218 people had died since the start of Syria's civil war in 2011.
It added that 5,644 people had been exposed to torture under the Assad regime, and 13 had been tortured by ISIL militants.
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