Wars Get Bloodier as Conflicts Move Into City Streets
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The number of people killed in wars has surged more than 60 percent in two years even as the incidence of active conflicts declines, with combatants resorting to more extreme violence and battles being fought in city streets.
Fatalities jumped to 180,000 in 2014 from 110,000 in 2012, the International Institute for Strategic Studies said today. Some 70,000 died in Syria alone, where about 200,000 people have been killed since the conflict ignited in 2011.