Forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad hold their weapons as they walk in Aleppo's historic citadel October 1, 2014. Credit: Reuters/George Ourfalian
Over 120,000 Pro-Assad Fighters Killed In Syria Conflict: Monitoring Group -- Reuters
(Reuters) - More than 120,000 fighters supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the country's civil war since it began in 2011, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday.
Syria's conflict began as a peaceful protest movement calling for reforms in 2011 but descended into civil war after a government crackdown. In total, more than 200,000 people have been killed and millions more have fled their homes.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said some 11,000 members of government forces and loyalist militias had been killed in the five months since Assad delivered an inauguration speech for a third presidential term.
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WNU Editor: For some regions of Syria .... destruction, war, and bloodshed are a daily occurrence .... but in other places there is normality .... The strange normality of life in the middle of Syria's war (BBC). Yup .... war is sometimes very strange.