230,000 Documented Deaths in Syria Since 2011

Syria’s brutal conflict has left more than 230,000 people dead since it began in 2011, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday.

The documented toll includes nearly 70,000 civilians, including 11,000 children and 7,000 women. Approximately 85,000 combatants loyal to President Bashar Assad’s regime have died, while combined anti-Assad forces account for 72,000 of those killed.

May was the bloodiest month of 2015 in Syria, with almost 7,000 people killed—the majority of which were regime forces and jihadist fighters.

The Observatory estimates that the conflict’s actual death toll is likely tens of thousands higher than its figure due to more than 20,000 missing persons.