More than 300,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict since March 2011, a monitor said in a new toll yesterday, the first full day of an internationally-brokered truce.
More than 86,000 civilians were among the 301,781 people killed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The civilian toll includes 15,099 children and 10,018 women, the Britain-based
monitoring group said.
Rebel fighters made up 52,359 of those killed.
A total of 59,006 Syrian soldiers have been killed, in addition to 48,048 other pro-government fighters from countries including Iraq, Iran and Lebanon as well as Syria.
Militants of the Islamic State group and the onetime Al Qaeda affiliate now renamed the Fateh al-Sham Front accounted for 52,031 of the dead.
The Observatory said another 3,645 victims could not be identified.
The figure is an increase of nearly 9,000 on the last death toll published by the
Observatory in early August.
A new ceasefire brokered by Moscow and Washington went into effect at sundown on Monday and residents reported that it appeared to be holding on its first full day yesterday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the fragile ceasefire in Syria was largely holding and expressed hopes that it would become permanent.
In televised comments in Istanbul, Erdogan said there were problems in two or three villages, and suggested that if everything went well in the first 48 hours, there would be a chance to sustain the truce.
“I hope that the ceasefire will be permanent,” he added.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu hoped all sides would do their share for the ceasefire to be lasting.
“God willing, it will not be one-sided,” he said, quoted by CNN-Turk television.
Israel’s military yesterday denied a Syrian claim that it had shot down two Israeli military aircraft.
