Posted on 12/17/2014 10:22:12 AM PST by Citizen Zed
More than 120,000 fighters supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the country's civil war since it began in 2011, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday.
Syria's conflict began as a peaceful protest movement calling for reforms in 2011 but descended into civil war after a government crackdown. In total, more than 200,000 people have been killed and millions more have fled their homes.
Shi'ite fighters including from neighbouring Iraq and Lebanon have joined Syria's fight to aid Assad, a member of the Shi'ite-derived Alawite sect, against the Sunni rebels trying to overthrow him.
Assad was inaugurated for a third presidential term in July after winning an election the opposition denounced as a farce.
Exact death tolls in the conflict have been difficult to verify, but the figures calculated by the Observatory are widely regarded as credible. The United Nations estimated in August more than 190,000 people had died in the conflict.
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The one thing Muzzies love to do is slaughter one another.
Reward the bad and punish the good.
Peace Prize.
Right.
Obama has his priorities and preserving human life is not on his list. 120 school children shot in the head. His comment? Someone once mistook him for a valet.
Thousands dead in the Ukraine? Time to golf or do some Choom and relax.
Worst. President. Ever.
Dead muzzie salute!
Good Let’s get rid of Assad so ISIS can takeover.
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