It said government forces and their allies had killed more than 83,500 civilians, including more than 27,500 in air strikes and 14,600 under torture in prison. Rebel shelling had killed more than 7,000 civilians, the Observatory said. The Islamic State jihadist group has killed more than 3,700 civilians, air strikes by the US-led coalition have killed 920 civilians and Turkey, which is backing rebels in northern Syria, has killed more than 500 civilians, it added. Syria's government and Russia both deny targeting civilians or using torture or extrajudicial killings. Most rebel groups and Turkey also deny targeting civilians.

Source: bd News24 March 13, 2017 13:41 UTC