NGO Report: 150,000 Have Been Killed In The Syrian Civil War

Children run across a street to avoid snipers in Deir al-Zor, Syria, earlier this year. A Britain-based nongovernmental organization says nearly 8,000 children have died in Syria's civil war. RFE

Death Toll In Syria's Civil War Above 150,000: Monitor -- Reuters

(Reuters) - At least 150,000 people have been killed in Syria's three-year-old civil war, a third of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday.

The UK-based Observatory, which monitors violence in Syria through a network of activists and medical or security sources, said that real toll was likely to be significantly higher at around 220,000 deaths.

Efforts to end the conflict by bringing together representatives of President Bashar al-Assad's government and the opposition have so far failed. The United Nations peace mediator for Syria said last week that talks were unlikely to resume soon.

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