How Data Scientists Are Uncovering War Crimes in Syria

For more than three years, Syria has been crippled by a bloody civil war that has laid waste to cities and exacted a heavy civilian toll

But because reporting in Syria is so dangerous, the bloodletting has largely taken place away from the media spotlight

One group of researchers, though, is determined to document every single killing

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Through painstaking data-gathering and assiduous verification, the group Syrian Tracker has tallied 111,915 deaths in the course of the conflict so far.

Syria Tracker gets reports from eyewitnesses and volunteers on the ground. Researchers also cull data from news reports. Read more...

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