A man carries a young girl who was injured in a reported barrel-bomb attack by government forces on June 3, 2014 in Kallaseh district in the northern city of Aleppo
The world's focus on what has been happening in Syria has moved to some disaster elsewhere - which doesn't mean that the ongoing war in Syria has lessened in any way. France 24 provides an update of the tragedy that has befallen the people of Syria.
"We have documented the killing of 202,354 people since March 2011," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman said, adding that more than 130,000 of them were combatants.
"Of the total, 63,074 of the killed were civilians, including 10,377 children," said Abdel Rahman.
"Among the anti-regime fighters, 37,324 were Syrian rebels, while 22,624 were non-Syrian jihadists," he added.
"On the regime side, there were 44,237 soldiers, 28,974 members of the (paramilitary) National Defence Force, 624 members of (Lebanon's Shiite) Hezbollah, and 2,388 pro-regime Shiite fighters from beyond Syria and Lebanon," Abdel Rahman said.
Another 3,011 were unidentified, he added.
Abdel Rahman said the toll "is probably much higher than 200,000, but certain areas under regime and (jihadist) Islamic State group control are impossible to work in freely".
He also said some 300,000 people are being held in Syria's infamous jails, including 20,000 who have gone missing entirely.
Thousands of other people – combatants and civilians – have also been taken hostage by IS and other factions active in Syria."
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