The death toll in the Syrian uprising turned civil war is more than 146,000 with more than a third civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said.
According to the London based Observatory, which released the numbers to mark the third anniversary of the Syrian revolution, the exact number is 146,065. Its data is based on a network of Syrian sources inside the country.
Nearly 35,000 of the deaths were from the armed opposition, including members of Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Most foreign fighters are affiliated with these opposition groups.
The Observatory said that more than 56,000 of the deaths were regime forces and their supporters. This number included 332 Shiite Hezbollah members and 459 Shiites from other countries.
However, the Observatory said that this number is not precise because both sides attempt to conceal the real number of causalities. The real number may be over 60,000.
Reuters said that the latest UN figures, released in July 2013, showed that the death toll was at least 100,000. It also said it would stop updating the death toll as conditions on the ground made it impossible to make accurate estimates
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