Syria Update, October 2, 2012 (Institute of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Strategic Studies. By Sherifa Zuhur Early death toll: More than 127 including 86 unarmed civilians. The death toll for the Syrian conflict since its inception stands at 31, 022 – mostly civilians. The video reported yesterday showing Austin Tice, the abducted American journalist in … More Syria Update, October 2, 2012
Syria Update, September 30, 2012 (Institute of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Strategic Studies. By Sherifa Zuhur) Today’s death toll: More than 120 Syrians were killed today, among them 43 unarmed civilians. Saturday’s revised death toll: More than 160, among them 89 civilians. The al-Nusra Front claimed to have captured five Yemeni army officers sent by … More Syria Update, September 30, 2012
Syria Update, September 29, 2012 (Institute of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Strategic Studies. By Sherifa Zuhur) Death toll: More than 94 Friday’s revised death toll: More than 160 including 104 unarmed civilians. A report from Medicins sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) from Syria: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/article.cfm?id=6324&cat=voice-from-the-field Aleppo province: A major fire engulfed the medieval markets, a tourist … More Syria Update, September 29, 2012
I talked to family last night in Aleppo and they said this is the first time that they have had the shelling so close to home. It is moving from the old city and the outskirts of Aleppo to the residential areas. This is coming from both sides that are doing the shelling- we got … More Update from family in Syria
Syria Update September 13, 2012. (Institute of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Strategic Studies. By Sherifa Zuhur) Current death toll: 130 including 83 unarmed civilians. Syria’s children are suffering from the conflict, and like children in conflict elsewhere in the world, their play reenacts the violence. Children do not have sufficient medicine to be treated. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08-PBLcZ8zo&feature=plcp … More Syria Update September 13, 2012
Syria Update, September 14, 2012 (Institute of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Strategic Studies. By Sherifa Zuhur) Current death toll: 97 Yesterday’s revised death toll: 190 Children More than 2,000 of Syria’s schools have been destroyed or badly damaged and 801 are being used as shelters by homeless families. This presents quite a challenge at the … More Syria Update, September 14, 2012
UNICEF, the UN Children’s Fund said that $54 million is needed urgently to help Syrian refugees. Jordan issued an appeal for $429.7 million needed to host Syrian refugees. Approximately 200,000 Syrian refugees are already in Jordan, and 17,000 of these are in the Zaatari refugee camp. The government said it anticipated that the Zaatari camp … More More Information on Syria and the Refugees
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