Syria’s war: Ten years – and counting

More than 5 million Syrian refugees, 6 million IDPs, with no end to the war in sight, millions are losing hope of going home.

It has been 10 years since the start of the Syrian uprisings and the country is still mired in a war that has displaced millions and killed hundreds of thousands. Syria’s economy has deteriorated, pushing almost 80 percent of the country below the poverty line, according to the Red Cross. The last death toll estimate by the UN in 2016 was more than 400,000 people. The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, placed the toll over 593,000 as of December 2020.