{"id":3744,"date":"2025-12-20T12:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T12:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/20\/syria-violence-death-toll-assad-overthrow\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T12:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T12:30:12","slug":"syria-violence-death-toll-assad-overthrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/20\/syria-violence-death-toll-assad-overthrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 1,300 Killed in Syria Since December Amid Growing Instability: Rights Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 1,348 people have been killed across Syria since December 8, 2024, coinciding with the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad. The human rights monitor described the current situation in the country as alarming and reported a significant rise in insecurity across many regions.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, 574 of the victims were targeted due to ethnic and sectarian affiliations, indicating that such motives played a direct role in a large number of the killings.<\/p>\n<p>The observatory emphasized that the violence has spread to most cities in Syria at a time when citizens lack the necessary support and societal divisions are deepening.<\/p>\n<p>The organization stressed that these figures are not just cold statistics, but a serious warning about the future of social cohesion and public safety in Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian rights group reports over 1,300 killed since Assad&#8217;s fall in Dec 2024, warns of rising violence, sectarianism, and deepening instability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}