Syria's War
What Non-Intervention has Produced… 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. Fact Sheet: U.S. Assistance for the People of Syria The U.S. Has Accepted Only 11 Refugees This Year *Do not do the Syrian Journey today. We will complete this on Monday. If you finished through number 13 put your computer away and work on something else quietly.
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