Monthly death toll | 130 civilians among 309 people ki*lled in January 2023

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 309 people in January 2023. The fatalities were distributed as follows:

Civilian death toll: 130 persons, including 29 children under the age of 18 and 23 women and 78 young men and men, and they were as follows:

• Five civilians died under torture in regime prisons.

• 22 civilians, including 15 children, were killed in explosions of old ordnance.

• 16 civilians, including three women, were shot dead by unidentified persons.

• 31 civilians, including four children and four women, were killed in “honour killings”, family and factional rivalries, and indiscriminate gunfire.

• Six civilians, including two women, were killed in shelling and gunfire by regime forces.

• Four civilians were killed by ISIS members.

• 14 civilians, including two children and four women, were killed in unknown circumstances.

• Two civilians were killed by SDF.

• Three civilians were killed by Turkish shelling.

• Six people were shot dead by Turkish border guards “Jandarma.”

• 21 civilians, including seven children and nine women, died of poor health conditions.

Combatants

• Regime forces: 80

• ISIS members: 18

• Syrian fighters of Islamist factions, rebel factions and other movements and organisations: 6

• Syrian members of Popular Committees, the National Defence Forces and regime-backed militias: 7

• Jihadists: 17

• Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) and affiliated military formations: 22

• Iranian-backed non-Syrian militiamen: 12

• Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen: 1

• Regime army defectors: 1

• Fighters of Kurdish units: 1

• Hezbollah: 4

• Turkish soldiers: 1