More than 800 Syrians killed in February: watchdog


At least 876 civilians were killed last month in war-torn Syria, mostly by the Assad regime and its allies, according to a U.K.-based NGO.According to a new report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights, February saw the death of 471 people - including 79 children and 55 women - in attacks by regime forces, allied terrorist groups and Russian aircraft in different parts of the country.Eighteen others were tortured to death by regime forces, the NGO claimed.It went on to allege that some 180 civilians had been killed in attacks carried out by Daesh, while 118 others lost their lives in U.S.-led international coalition attacks.Meanwhile, another 16 were killed in attacks by armed Syrian opposition groups, while seven others lost their lives in attacks by the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is affiliated with the PKK terrorist group and its Syrian offshoot the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the NGO said.Some 66 other civilians, the watchdog pointed out in the report, had been killed in February by unknown parties.