The goal of this study is to document the impact of four years of war on Syrian children's social, educational and health status. Methods: A cross sectional observational study was conducted in May 2015. Health care workers, especially trained for this study, visited home by home in four ...
The refugee camp was established in 1949 to house Palestinians displaced by the first Arab-Israeli war. Starting with simple tents erected on an empty plot of ground, Palestinians gradually constructed buildings in the camp and formed a tightly-knit community. Since the Syrian civil war broke out...
His position and the status of his regime seemed to be at their peak.4A look at the people at the top before the unrest started and a review of Bashar's conduct in the first decade of his tenure show that the upper Syrian echelon was composed of people reflecting the nature and essence...
35Citations 11Altmetric Metrics Abstract The United Nations described the Syrian conflict as the worst man-made disaster since World War II. We adopted a global perspective in examining the impact of the Syrian conflict on Syrians’ physical, mental, and social well-being using the Gallup World...
The civil war there has stalemated into a moral catastrophe that challenges more than geopolitical interests by turning a country of twenty-five million into a slaughter-house. The Arab Spring and the proliferation of weapons across the Middle East have shifted national interests as quickly as the...
General Overviews General Situation of Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Rights and Status Settlement and Integration of Syrian Refugees in Turkey Effects of the Syrian Refugees on Turkey Other Reflections Online Resources Back to top Ahmet İçduygu,Eleni Diker ...
WikiLeaks: Western firms boosted Syrian communications network The fierce clashes, which have raged over the past three days in at least four neighborhoods across the city, were the latest sign that Syria's civil war is moving ever closer to the heart of President Bashar Assad's regime. Govern...
On 28 December, the GoS and Turkish defense ministers met in Moscow. The meeting, the first of its kind in over a decade, addressed the ongoing civil war and the Syrian refugees in Turkey,[7]thawing the trilateral relations between Ankara, Moscow, and Damascus. Turkish President Erdoğan is...
Security-Related Developments · Russia vetoed the cross-border mechanism approved by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), which allowed U.N. aid to be delivered through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing outside of GoS control. However, the U.N. and the GoS reached an agreement to keep...
Analyzing daily documented killings by the government in the Syrian civil war, I find that blackouts occur in conjunction with significantly higher levels of state repression, most notably in areas where government forces are actively fighting violent opposition groups. In addition, I estimate the ...