{"id":15025,"date":"2018-09-14T05:24:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T05:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15025"},"modified":"2018-09-14T05:24:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T05:24:27","slug":"un-renews-libya-mission-but-no-date-for-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15025","title":{"rendered":"UN renews Libya mission but no date for elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1371546\/middle-east\" readability=\"63\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: More than 360,000 people have been killed across war-ravaged Syria in seven years, a monitoring group said Thursday, in a new toll for the brutal conflict.<br \/>It came amid rising international concern that a looming Syrian government assault against rebels in the northwest province of Idlib would be a \u201cbloodbath.\u201d<br \/>The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had recorded the deaths of 364,792 people, nearly a third of them civilians, since protests erupted in March 2011 against President Bashar Assad.<br \/>The toll represents an increase of about 13,000 people in the past six months, according to the Britain-based monitor, which uses a vast network of sources including fighters, officials and medical staff.<br \/>The war has killed 110,687 civilians, including more than 20,000 children and nearly 13,000 women.<br \/>More than 124,000 pro-government fighters have died, around half of them regime troops and the rest an assortment of Syrian and foreign militiamen loyal to Assad.<br \/>Among them are 1,665 from Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah movement.<br \/>The Observatory recorded the deaths of 64,000 hard-line Islamists and Islamist extremists, including from the Daesh group and former Al-Qaeda affiliate factions.<br \/>Another 64,800 fighters from other forces, including non-Islamist rebels, soldiers who defected and Kurdish factions, were also killed since 2011.<br \/>The Observatory said it had confirmed the deaths of another 250 people but could not specify their identities.<br \/>With help from his Russian and Iranian allies, Assad has recaptured nearly two-thirds of Syrian territory.<br \/>The lion\u2019s share of the rest is the Kurdish-controlled northeast.<br \/>The largest chunk of rebel-held territory left comprises the province of Idlib and surrounding areas, where an estimated three million people live.<br \/>Assad\u2019s troops have been amassing around the area for weeks ahead of a threatened assault.<br \/>The United Nations, world powers, and aid groups alike have warned a full-fledged offensive on Idlib could create a humanitarian calamity.<br \/>UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres this week urged the regime to pull back and for all sides to find a peaceful solution, saying Idlib \u201cmust not be transformed into a bloodbath.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: More than 360,000 people have been killed across war-ravaged Syria in seven years, a monitoring group said Thursday, in a new toll for the brutal conflict.It came amid rising international concern that a looming Syrian government assault against rebels in the northwest province of Idlib would be a \u201cbloodbath.\u201dThe Syrian Observatory for Human 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