After many frontlines across the country flared up in recent months, the 11-year-old war in Syria runs the risk of erupting once again with a return to extensive fighting, the UN warned on Wednesday in a new study, according to Reuters.
“Syria cannot afford a return to larger-scale fighting, but that is where it may be heading,” said Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Chair of the UN’s Syria commission.
“Today, Syrians face increasing and intolerable hardships, living among the ruins of this lengthy conflict. Millions are suffering and dying in displacement camps, while resources are becoming scarcer and donor fatigue is rising,” he added.
Since protests against President Bashar Al-Assad in 2011 turned into a civil conflict that drew in global powers and left Syria divided into zones of control, hundreds of thousands of people have died and millions have been made homeless.
After Iran and Russia assisted Assad in retaking 70% of Syrian territory, fighting has subsided in recent years, but the report says increasing fighiting between Turkish-backed forces and Kurdish-led forces in the north.
“We also see continued operations by Israel, as well as the US, Turkey and Iran-backed forces, in this protracted conflict,” commissioner Lynn Welchman warned.
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