Monthly death toll | 154 civilians among 298 people killed in August 2024
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 298 people in August 2024. The fatalities were distributed as follows:
Civilian death toll: 154 persons, including 24 children and 22 women, and they were as follows:
- Five civilians died under torture in regime prisons.
- 26 civilians, including two children and three women, were killed in infightings and indiscriminate gunfire.
- Two children were killed by opposition factions.
- Two civilians, including a woman, were killed in unknown circumstances.
- Six civilians, including three children, were killed by explosions of old ordnance.
- 23 civilians, including nine children and five women, were killed in bombardment and gunfire by regime forces.
- One civilian was extrajudicially executed.
- 51 civilians, including two children and ten women, were murdered.
- Two civilians, including a child, died of poor health conditions.
- Six civilians were killed by explosions of booby-trapped vehicles.
- Seven civilians, including a child, were killed by ISIS.
- Three civilians, including a child and a woman, were killed in Turkish bombardment.
- Three civilians were shot dead by Turkish border guards (Jandarma).
- Four civilians, including a child, were killed by landmine and IED explosions.
- Seven civilians, including a child, were shot dead by unknown gunmen.
- Four civilians, including a child and a woman, were killed by SDF.
- Two civilians, including a woman, were killed in other circumstances.
Regime forces: 45
ISIS: 9
Syrian fighters of Islamist factions, rebel factions and other movements and organisations: 18
Syrian members of Popular Committees, the National Defence Forces and regime-backed militias: 14
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and affiliated military formations: 7
Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen: 28
Iranian-backed non-Syrian militiamen: 7
Lebanese Hezbollah: 1
Kurdish units: 3
Jihadists: 9
Others: 3
We, at the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, call on the international community once again to work hard to stop the bloodshed in Syria. The people of Syria have been facing tyranny and oppression in their noble endeavour and cause to obtain justice, democracy, freedom and equality.
The Syrian Observatory renews its commitment to continue monitoring and documenting all the developments on the ground in Syria including, the massacres, violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the Syrian people, as well as publishing all relevant statistics and causalities of such heinous acts, and hope to help all the ongoing efforts of bringing the perpetrators to special international courts, so that they do not escape justice for the crimes they committed against the people of Syria.