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Mar 11, 2024 · Syria has used cluster munitions in densely populated areas, “continuing devastating and unlawful patterns that we have documented in the past,” said Commissioner Hanny Megally. “The October attacks resulted in some 120,000 people in fleeing, many of them previously displaced several times, including by the devastating earthquakes last February.”
May 30, 2023 · 30 May 2023 Peace and Security. Action on the ground must match diplomacy’s steadily advancing gains towards ending the 12-year-old war in Syria, where violence is once again, killing a growing numbers of civilians, the top UN official in the country said on Tuesday. “It is vital that the recent diplomatic moves are matched with real action ...
Mar 11, 2024 · GENEVA (11 March 2024) — Syria is experiencing a wave of violence not seen since 2020, the UN Syria Commission of Inquiry warned in a report released today. Across multiple frontlines, parties to the conflict have attacked civilians and infrastructure in ways likely amounting to war crimes, while an unprecedented humanitarian crisis is plunging Syrians into ever deepening despair.
Sep 24, 2021 · Syria war: UN calculates new death toll. 24 September 2021. Reuters. Many deaths may never be accounted for, the report says. At least 350,209 people have been killed in 10 years of war in Syria ...
Feb 14, 2023 · Syria’s Civil War: The Descent Into Horror. Twelve years after protesters in Syria first demonstrated against the four-decade rule of the Assad family, hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been ...
Syria is a unitary multiparty republic with one legislative house; its head of state and government is the president, who by law must be a Muslim. The legal system is based largely on Islamic law. The area now included within the Syrian republic has been inhabited for several thousand years.
May 18, 2023 · Syria’s absence from the Arab League was a “strategic mistake,” Libyan columnist Jibreel al-Obaidi wrote in Asharq Al-Awsat on Monday. Reintegrating it into the region is necessary to reduce ...
