While roughly 500 people per month were killed from March to August 2011, some 100,000 civilians – around 3,200 per month – died between September 2011 and April 2015, with the total number of dead, including combatants, reaching perhaps 310,000, or 10,000 per month. And, with the Islamic State and other brutal extremist groups capitalizing on the anarchy created by the civil war, the prospect of peace is more distant than ever.
结果是彻头彻尾的灾难。2011年3月至8月，每个月只有大约500人被杀，而2011年9月至2015年4月有大约100,000平民死亡——也就是每个月3,200人，而总死亡人数（包括战斗人员）也许高达310,000，或每个月10,000人。此外，伊斯兰国和其他残暴极端组织也开始利用内战所造成的无序，和平的希望更加渺茫了。