76,000 People Died in Syria’s Civil War in 2014 – Rick Gladstone and Mohammad Ghannam (New York Times)
(dailyalert.org, Jan. 2, 2014)

More than 76,000 people died in Syria’s civil war in 2014, including 17,790 civilians, among them 3,501 children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reportedon Thursday – making it the deadliest year since the conflict began in March 2011.