Syrian Conflict: 76,000 were killed during the 2014

Syrian Conflict: 76,000 were killed during the 2014

Violence committed group calling itself the Islamic State caused many casualties fell.

2014 was the deadliest year in the four-year conflict in Syria with more than 76,000 people dead, according to human rights organizations monitoring the Syrian problem.

UK-based NGO, said 17 790 people killed were civilians, including the deaths in children who reached 3,501.

While the conflict in Iraq caused more than 15,000 deaths in 2014 is referred to as the worst year since 2007.

Most of the victims died as a result of attacks by militants calling themselves the Islamic State, or ISIS, and other militant groups in both countries.

More than 3,500 children were killed in the armed conflict in Syria in 2014.

US-led air strikes against the ISIS group, fighting between government forces and rebels in Syria, and sectarian violence in Iraq also contributed large numbers of deaths.

Meanwhile, the US-led coalition forces continued air strikes on Thursday (01/01), to the ISIS power base near the city of Raqqa, Deir al-Kobane and Zour. A similar attack was also carried out in the ISIS in Iraq, the city of Falluja, Mosul and Sinjar.

Separately, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad marking the new year with a trip to the forefront of Syrian troops in the suburbs of Damascus.

In his Twitter and Facebook accounts, Assad showed pictures of when he talked with two soldiers with tanks background and shake hands with members of the army. (BBC)