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A Syrian opposition monitoring group that tracks Syria’s civil war says a year of Russian air strikes have killed more than 9,364 people, including more than 3,800 civilians, in the war-torn country.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on September 30 that the toll includes 3,804 civilians, among them 906 children, in addition to rebel fighters seeking to topple the Moscow-backed Syrian government.

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