BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels battled regime forces today for control of a key military base in the central Hama province after chasing soldiers out and setting fire to installations there, activists said.
The fighting came as the United Nations released figures that highlighted the carnage that has engulfed Syria for more than two years, saying that almost 93,000 people have been confirmed killed in the conflict.
In a new analysis of the Syrian death toll issued in Geneva, the U.N.’s human rights office acknowledged the real number is likely to be far higher. It documented 92,901 killings between March 2011 and the end of April 2013. But the U.N.’s top human rights official, Navi Pillay, said it was impossible to provide an exact current figure.
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