Syria toll tops 200,000 as food crisis looms for refugees

The death toll in Syria's war was reported on Tuesday to have topped 200,000 as aid workers warned of a humanitarian crisis after the UN cut food aid to 1.7 million Syrian refugees. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said it had documented the deaths of at least 202,354 people in less than four years of conflict.
Most of those killed were combatants in a conflict that began with peaceful anti-government protests in March 2011 and later spiralled into a civil war. Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said 63,074 civilians were among the dead, including more than 10,000 children.