ISIS ISIS Video and Interactive Watch the video and examine the graphics (questions 1-4) ISIS Article Scroll down and read the section titled Fighting ISIS in the article (questions 5-6) Has ISIS Already Lost The War In Iraq And Syria? Watch the video (questions 7-9) What Non-Intervention has Produced… (questions 16-17) Deaths. Estimates of war casualties are about 470,000 depending on who is counted. Since the Islamic State created its caliphate in Syria, an estimated 4,000 civilians have been executed by the group. Life expectancy in Syria has dropped from almost 80 to 55. Refugees. According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there were 5,276,506 refugees as of October 5th, 2017. There are thought to be an additional 2 million refugees who remain inside Syria but are displaced from their homes. Three-quarters of those who have fled their homes are women and children. Most own nothing except what they are wearing. Physical destruction. The ancient cities of Aleppo, Bosra and Palmyra are irreparably damaged. Damascus is badly damaged. Infrastructure — roads, bridges, factories — across the country has been destroyed. Schools and hospitals have been leveled. Only last month, the Syrian government bombed four makeshift hospitals and a blood bank in Aleppo. Destabilization of the region. The vast majority of the refugees are in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt, where they put an enormous economic and political burden on poorer, frailer states. A fifth of the residents of Lebanon are Syrian refugees, numbers that may upset the delicate political balance there. Riots have broken out in refugee camps in Jordan. In Turkey, the side effects of the Syrian war also include the exacerbation of tensions with the Kurdish minority and other groups inside the country, as well as high rates of crime, smuggling and unrest along the border. How much humanitarian aid has the U.S. provided, and where is it going? (question 18) The U.S. is the world’s largest bilateral donor of humanitarian aid. To date, the U.S. has provided $4.5 billion in humanitarian assistance since the start of this crisis and is leading the world in responding to this crisis through relentless humanitarian, diplomatic, and development efforts. This assistance provides healthcare, food, water, and basic necessities to people suffering in all 14 Governorates of Syria and to Syrian refugees in neighboring countries. The U.S. Government assists approximately 6.6 million Syrians per month with this assistance. When communities are bombed, our support for medical teams means more than a half-million surgeries that are helping save lives. When there is no food in the market, our partners risk their lives to deliver that food to displaced families. When neighboring communities have strained to care for refugees in their midst, the U.S. helps them upgrade their electrical grids, build more pumps for clean water, and manage double or triple shifts in their schools. Syrian Journey: Choose Your Own Escape Route Follow the instructions to choose your own routes as you try to escape war torn Syria (questions 19-20)
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