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Sep 24, 2021 · A decade of war in Syria has left more 350,200 people dead, High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet told the Human Rights Council on Friday, noting that this total was an “under-count of the actual number of killings”. These are a result of a war that spiralled out of the 2011 uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule.
5 days ago · Syrian Civil War, armed conflict that began in 2011 with an uprising against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The conflict drew involvement from a number of international actors and helped precipitate the rise of ISIL (also called ISIS or Islamic State) in eastern Syria.
Mar 15, 2021 · There is limited shelter, fuel is scarce, and food prices are soaring. According to the UN, Syria is “the worst man-made disaster since World War II”. 9.3 million Syrians are food-insecure ...
The Syria crisis, currently in its 11th year, remains the largest displacement crisis in the world. Children are bearing the brunt of the 11-year-old conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic. Over 13.4 million people (6.1 million children) require assistance and 7 million people are internally displaced (3.1 million children).
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 ...
Jul 10, 2015 · Syria: Mapping the conflict. 10 July 2015. Territorial control in Syria has changed many times since the country's uprising began more than four years ago, with long periods of attrition ...
Mar 9, 2022 · Today the poverty rate in Syria is an unprecedented 90 percent; 14.6 million people in Syria depend on humanitarian aid. In Syria’s northwest, many Syrians forced from their homes “are still living in flimsy tents, stuck in snow, rain, mud,” Mr. Pinheiro continued, before insisting that “some actors seem to spend more energy on preventing aid to get to them, rather than facilitating it”.
