26/07/2013 09:56
U.N.: Death toll in Syria tops 100,000
More than 100,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday as he called for a peace conference to stop the violence on both sides, CNN reported.
"We have to bring this to an end," Ban said in remarks before meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
In addition to the deaths, Ban noted that "millions of people have either been displaced or become refugees in neighboring countries."
Syria is wracked by a civil war in which a government dominated by minority Alawite Muslims is squaring off with rebels dominated by Sunni Muslims.
This May, the United Nations reported that more than 1.5 million had fled for other countries because of the violence, while 4 million more had been displaced within Syria.
Yet many remain, whether by choice or necessity, amid the bloodshed.