News Center- More than 528,500 people have been killed in the Syrian civil war since 2011, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a Britain-based monitoring group, said on Wednesday.

The overall toll includes thousands killed since 2011 that were only confirmed dead recently, with access to detention centers and mass graves easier following the rebel overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.

Since 2011, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has recorded more than 64,000 deaths in the Assad regime’s prisons “due to torture, medical negligence and poor conditions” in the jail.

6,777 people, more than half of them civilians, were killed in 2024 in fighting in Syria, the Observatory said.

3,598 civilians, including 240 women and 337 children, were killed across Syria last year, according to the Observatory. 

In 2023, SOHR reported the killing of 4,360 people, including about 1,900 civilians.