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August death toll in Syria soars to record levels
Activist groups report about 5,000 killed in August, the highest monthly total in the 17 month uprising, as Assad's regime intensifies air power and artillery bombardments. Observatory tallies exceed 5,000 with over 4,000 civilians, while UNICEF cites 1,600 killed in a single week.
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Syria
Bashar Assad
U.N. Children’s Fund
Unicef
Omar Idilbi
Coordination Committees
Assad
Aleppo
Syrian Observatory For Human Rights
LCC
Observatory
Egypt
Tunisia
Yemen
Libya