Syrian being evacuated from Zamlka in Syria's eastern Al-Ghouta province outside Damascus,Syria, 25 March 2018. Picture by Anas Alkharboutli/DPA/PA Images. All rights reserved.
The recent attacks in Eastern Ghouta in which a swath of land housing a population of 400,000 was surrounded, shelled incessantly and later invaded have refocused the world’s attention on the events in Syria.
As the long and tumultuous Syrian civil war grinds on, the cascade of death, displacement and physical destruction shows no signs of ending. Human Rights Watch, in its latest report, stated that the number of deaths since the conflict began tops 400,000 and cited other UN agencies’ estimates of refugees abroad at 5 million and those internally displaced at 6 million.
