Merkel, “This conflict has become a conflict of regional interests, a conflict of religions and that’s why today’s award reminds me and many other European leaders that we should be more involved in solving this conflict,” she said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor, says more than half a million people have been killed in the Syrian war since it erupted seven years ago. About 85 percent of the dead were civilians killed by the forces of the Syrian government and its allies, according to the Observatory.
