FIGHTING
Syria’s deadliest month of war
At least 3,000 people including 955 civilians were killed in Syria, says Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor
Beirut — Syria’s war killed at least 3,000 people including 955 civilians in September, the deadliest month of the conflict this year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said on Sunday. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been killed and millions displaced since the war erupted in 2011. It has since spiralled into a complex conflict involving world powers, with Russian-backed regime forces and a US-supported alliance separately battling Islamic State (IS) jihadists in the country. The 955 civilians killed in September included 207 children, said the Britain-based Observatory, which relies on a wide network of sources inside Syria for its information. "More than 70% of the civilians were killed in regime and Russian air strikes, or in air raids of the international coalition" fighting IS, the monitor’s head Rami Abdel Rahman said. Backed by Russian air strikes, the forces of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad are pressing a battle to retake IS-controlled areas in the ea...
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