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DAMASCUS, March 13 (Xinhua) -- As many as 320,000 people have been killed during Syria's six-year-old war, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday.
The Observatory said it managed to document the death of 321,358 people, and that among the killed civilians were 17,400 children and 11,000 women.
The toll also included 114,474 government forces and allied fighters.
On the other side, the casualty tally included 55,000 rebels and Kurdish fighters, said the London-based Observatory.
The death toll of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front and the Islamic State (IS) group was put at 56,000.
The Syrian crisis started on March 15, 2011, and evolved into a full-fledged war that involved outside powers.
