Civil War in Syria

Conflict Zones and Refugee Camps

Mohammad Tareq Khadra & Hameedullah Shaheer, March 11, 2020

War in Syria is an ongoing multi-sided civil war fought between the Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic led by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, along with domestic and foreign allies, and various domestic and foreign forces opposing both the Syrian government and each other in varying combinations. The war is currently the second deadliest war in the 21st century; However, there's around nine armies fighting in the country whether in favor with the current government or working nearby with the opposition.

The Ancient Palmyra City

Banyias Castle

Hama's water wheels

Syrians are an overall indigenous Levant people, closely related to their immediate neighbors, such as Lebanese, Palestinians, Jordanians and Jews. Syria has a population of approximately 22,000,000 (2011 estimate). Syrian Arab, together with some 600,000 Palestinians not including the 6 million refugees outside the country. Arabs make up roughly 74% of the population. The indigenous Assyrians and Western Aramaic-speakers number around 400,000 people, with the Western Aramaic-speakers living mainly in the villages of Ma'loula, Jubbadin and Bakh'a, while the Assyrians mainly reside in the north and northeast (Homs, Aleppo, Qamishli, Hasakah). Many (particularly the Assyrian group) still retain several Neo-Aramic dialects as spoken and written languages. in addition, Syria possess many old cities that go back to 10,000 BC.

This map represents incidence of conflict inside the Syrian Arab Republic land and the conflict sites are mainly between the Syrian Government and the Free Syrian Army. Most of the conflict zones in Syria are plotted mainly in the South and Northwest and along the local roads. The conflict in Syria has been going for nine years and the casualties have reached to two million people killed with over one million people injured.

This map represents the location of the refugee camps in the nearby countries and the cross borders between them (Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey). The pre-war population of the Syrian Arab Republic was estimated around 22 million (2017), including permanent residents. Of that number, the United Nation(UN) identified 13.5 million in (2016) as displaced persons, requiring humanitarian assistance. Since the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011 more than six million people were internally displaced, and around five million people (2016) had crossed the border to neighboring countries, with most of them seeking asylum or in Syrian Refugee Camps established in Turkey (3,614,108 ) , Lebanon (929,624) , Jordan (662,010), and Iraq (245,810). Most of the refugee camps are located near the border crossing between all four neighboring countries with Syria. Also, the number of refugees has increased approximately by another million new cases because of the ongoing war in the Northwest near the Turkish-Syrian borders

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The Ancient Palmyra City

Banyias Castle

Hama's water wheels

Syrians are an overall indigenous Levant people, closely related to their immediate neighbors, such as Lebanese, Palestinians, Jordanians and Jews. Syria has a population of approximately 22,000,000 (2011 estimate). Syrian Arab, together with some 600,000 Palestinians not including the 6 million refugees outside the country. Arabs make up roughly 74% of the population. The indigenous Assyrians and Western Aramaic-speakers number around 400,000 people, with the Western Aramaic-speakers living mainly in the villages of Ma'loula, Jubbadin and Bakh'a, while the Assyrians mainly reside in the north and northeast (Homs, Aleppo, Qamishli, Hasakah). Many (particularly the Assyrian group) still retain several Neo-Aramic dialects as spoken and written languages. in addition, Syria possess many old cities that go back to 10,000 BC.

This map represents incidence of conflict inside the Syrian Arab Republic land and the conflict sites are mainly between the Syrian Government and the Free Syrian Army. Most of the conflict zones in Syria are plotted mainly in the South and Northwest and along the local roads. The conflict in Syria has been going for nine years and the casualties have reached to two million people killed with over one million people injured.

This map represents the location of the refugee camps in the nearby countries and the cross borders between them (Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey). The pre-war population of the Syrian Arab Republic was estimated around 22 million (2017), including permanent residents. Of that number, the United Nation(UN) identified 13.5 million in (2016) as displaced persons, requiring humanitarian assistance. Since the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011 more than six million people were internally displaced, and around five million people (2016) had crossed the border to neighboring countries, with most of them seeking asylum or in Syrian Refugee Camps established in Turkey (3,614,108 ) , Lebanon (929,624) , Jordan (662,010), and Iraq (245,810). Most of the refugee camps are located near the border crossing between all four neighboring countries with Syria. Also, the number of refugees has increased approximately by another million new cases because of the ongoing war in the Northwest near the Turkish-Syrian borders