At least 994 regime army soldiers, including 27 officers, had been killed last July, 70 of them were buried in mass grave in northern province of Idlib, Syrian Revolution Coordinators Union said.
SRCU also reported death of 241 militants loyal to Bashar al-Assad's forces in Zabadani city near the Lebanese border.
Assad's key ally Hezbollah militia had lost 38 fighters across Syria, including 30 in Zabadani offensive in July, the union and activists said.
The Syrian army, one of the region's largest, has been over stretched by a four-year long insurgency where it is battling on several major fronts Islamist rebels and ultra-hardline jihadist militants who have seized large swathes of territory. Many young men have fled the country or find ways to avoid conscription.
With no end in sight to the war, the Syrian army's manpower shortages have surfaced in recent months by growing reliance on recruitment in loyalist militias in state-controlled provinces, where those volunteering are offered lucrative pay.
In the other camp, at least 966 civilians, including 286 children and 209 women, were killed by Syrian regime airstrikes across the war-torn country last July, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said.
The monitoring group that tracks war in Syria also reported that 58 people had tortured to death by regime security in July.
In its turn, the U.S.-led coalition had killed 23 civilians, including 7 children and a woman, last July, SNHR said.
More than 250,000 people have been killed since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011. Four million others have fled abroad to escape the fighting and more than 8 million have been displaced internally, according to UN reports and monitoring groups.
SRCU also reported death of 241 militants loyal to Bashar al-Assad's forces in Zabadani city near the Lebanese border.
Assad's key ally Hezbollah militia had lost 38 fighters across Syria, including 30 in Zabadani offensive in July, the union and activists said.
The Syrian army, one of the region's largest, has been over stretched by a four-year long insurgency where it is battling on several major fronts Islamist rebels and ultra-hardline jihadist militants who have seized large swathes of territory. Many young men have fled the country or find ways to avoid conscription.
With no end in sight to the war, the Syrian army's manpower shortages have surfaced in recent months by growing reliance on recruitment in loyalist militias in state-controlled provinces, where those volunteering are offered lucrative pay.
In the other camp, at least 966 civilians, including 286 children and 209 women, were killed by Syrian regime airstrikes across the war-torn country last July, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said.
The monitoring group that tracks war in Syria also reported that 58 people had tortured to death by regime security in July.
In its turn, the U.S.-led coalition had killed 23 civilians, including 7 children and a woman, last July, SNHR said.
More than 250,000 people have been killed since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011. Four million others have fled abroad to escape the fighting and more than 8 million have been displaced internally, according to UN reports and monitoring groups.
Zaman Al Wasl
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