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More than 113,000 people, including thousands of children, remain forcibly disappeared after being detained in Syria since 2011, a rights group said on Friday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said at least 113,218 people, including 3,129 children, are still disappeared after being arrested by parties to Syria’s war or “controlling forces” in the country. Syrian regime forces were responsible for disappearing more than 85 percent of the total, while the Islamic State (IS) group was responsible for eight percent of cases, according to SNHR’s figures, which ran from March 2011 to Augus…