The death toll in Syria now exceeds 100,000, UN chief Ban says.

More than 100,000 people have been killed in the conflict in Syria, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said.

Recent estimates of the number killed was 7,000 higher than the one issued by the United Nations last month.

Mr Ban was speaking at the UN headquarters in New York with U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry.

Both men stressed the urgency of finding a political solution to the conflict. Mr. Ban appealed for fresh efforts in the peace conference.

In the past, the UN has said that statistics are believed to underestimate the number of deaths has not yet been reported.
Syria, another 1.7 million have been forced to seek refuge in neighboring countries.

UN announcement came as reports from the capital, Damascus, said seven people were killed in a car bomb attack.

Syrian state media said the attack occurred at a house in the suburbs of many Christians and Druze Jaramana adherents of the syncretic offshoot of Shia Islam. Tend to be more support for President Bashar al-Assad - within those communities.

"Military action to stop the violence by both sides and it is necessary to have a peace conference in Geneva as soon as possible," Mr. Ban said, according to AFP.

Prior to the holding of a peace conference was postponed from the difference between the international powers, especially Russia and the U.S. and concerns about all aspects, be it from Syria to participate.

However, Mr. Kerry said he spoke with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday and the two countries remain committed to holding the meeting.

Mr Ban said he and. UN-Arab League special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi would "spare no efforts" to bring about the meeting.

UK-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), meanwhile, said more than 2,000 people have died since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on July 10.

SOHR said most of those killed were civilians from the two sides. The death toll was 639 civilians, 105 of them women and 99 children, according to figures of the SOHR.

SOHR also said it believes that the statistics are careless. "Both parties will not disclose the actual amount of losses.

The death toll in Syria now exceeds 100,000, UN chief Ban says.