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- After 13 years of conflict, families in Syria have been forced, often multiple times, to flee to safety. Some have reported being displaced as many as nine times or more in just the first decade of the crisis. Whether moving within the country or abroad, each of these rounds of displacement brings new trauma and psychological burden.
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Mar 14, 2024 · After 13 years of conflict in Syria, more children than ever in need of humanitarian assistance and a chance. Prolonged exposure to conflict and deprivation taking a devastating long-term physical and mental toll on generation of children. 14 March 2024. UNICEF/UN0779763/Belal.
Sep 14, 2021 · The future for Syria’s people is “increasingly bleak”, UN-appointed rights experts said on Tuesday, highlighting escalating conflict in several areas of the war-ravaged country, a return to...
Mar 17, 2024 · After 13 years of war, Syria is suffering from the highest humanitarian needs in its recent history. It is the sixth most food-insecure country in the world, and 16.7 million Syrians...
- How It Started
- The Damages of War
- The Human Cost of War
On March 15, 2011, major unrest erupted across the streets of Deraa, Damascus and Aleppo, with protesters demanding democratic reforms and the release of political prisoners. Protests were triggered by the arrest and torture of a group of teenaged boys a few days earlier in the city of Deraa over graffiti denouncing longtime president Bashar al-Ass...
Aleppo
Aleppo was an industrial and economic hub in northwest Syria with nearly 3 million inhabitants at its peak. In December 2016, the Syrian army scored its biggest victory against the rebels when it recaptured the strategic city. The city had been divided and under rebel control since the beginning of the unrest in 2012.
Eastern Ghouta
Eastern Ghouta lies 10km (six miles) east of the capital, Damascus. In 2018, after a fierce seven-week offensive that left much of the city in ruins, the Syrian army regained control of areas that had been held by opposition fighters since 2012.
Raqqa
Raqqa, situated on the Euphrates River in Syria’s north, was the first governorate capital to fall under opposition control after the start of the Syrian uprising in 2011. In 2014, the city was captured by ISIL (ISIS), who declared it their capital. Raqqa and many villages and towns in the province were devastated by US-led coalition air raids during the anti-ISIL operation between 2016 and 2017. According to some estimates, between 70 and 80 percent of the city was destroyed, and its infrast...
With colossal damage to homes, schools, hospitals and infrastructure, large parts of Syria have been shattered by the fighting. US government sanctions and a surge of COVID infections has made life even more difficult for war-weary families. There is limited shelter, fuel is scarce, and food prices are soaring. According to the UN, Syria is “the wo...
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Jan 25, 2023 · Almost twelve years into Syria’s devastating civil war, the country remains tattered and deeply divided, facing massive economic hardships, limited political progress and the world’s largest...
For 13 years now Syrians have endured unprecedented devastation and displacement, gross and systematic violations and breaches of international law, while their demands for truth, justice and...
