Unending Crisis in Syria

USA does not want to see a peaceful Mideast and Saudi Arabia s helps the Americans to execute their agenda in perfection. .

Imperialist Americans and capitalist Arabs led by Saudi Arabia, among others, must be happy that many Arab nations have been almost entirely destroyed; millions of Muslims killed by anti-Islamic NATO forces that also looted the resources of Arab world and converted the region insecure. .

Presidents in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen had been forced out. In Libya, Muammar Gaddafi had been killed.

Sunni Syria is one of the worst affected as Saudi is still keen to remove or kill its president Assad who is a Shiia.   .

In the year or so after a series of local uprisings in March 2011 escalated quickly into a shooting war, President Assad's opponents hoped it would end with the rapid collapse of the system that his father had established in 1970.

President Assad was never as unpopular as the leaders who were deposed in 2011, but many Syrians were fed up with repression and corruption. He had enemies, and at first demonstrators called for the reforms that he had often promised and never delivered.

President Assad has survived the US sponsored Syrian opposition turned terror group, and that would have been impossible without a degree of popular support. For his supporters, and others who just wanted a quiet life, the so-called "Arab Spring" has been a cruel joke.

President Assad has had some bad moments. He has lost control of large swathes of the country. But his regime has been surprisingly resilient. It has had military, diplomatic and financial support from Iran, Russia and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement. But just as importantly, it has kept the support of most of Syria's minorities and enough of the majority Sunni Muslims to survive. That has helped deliver the loyalty of most of the armed forces, another crucial factor. Wholesale defections were often predicted in the first few years of fighting, but never happened. The Assad regime has been stronger than many expected, which has helped it to survive. But another reason for the long war has been the disunity of the rebels. They blamed the West for failing to support them properly. But they were never able to come up with a coherent way to appeal to millions of Syrians locked in their own personal struggles to survive the war.

President Assad's message has been consistent. He argued from the start that the uprising against him was a foreign conspiracy, a cynical alliance of jihadists and friends of Israel who wanted to destroy the Syrian state because it had dared to defy them.

Diplomatic attempts to stop the war, or even slow it down, have failed. Syria's connections with the rest of the Middle East, and the rivalries of big powers left no room for diplomacy.

Syria never had a straightforward civil war. But now it is at the centre of an international conflict. All of Syria's neighbours have become involved, in one way or another. The war is changing, morphing into an even more grotesque shape, but it shows no signs of ending.

Standing in the dank basement room where he was effectively imprisoned, Mahawish condemned the uprisings of 2011."The Arab Spring," he said, "was used to fool people and caused a lot of problems in our country. Householders lost their properties, so did factory owners, people who were dreaming of a bright future for their children, good schools, university degrees, marriage, all gone… During these last three to four years, we were taken back to the dinosaur era. Even the dinosaurs, he said, were more civilised than the rebels”...

Many humanitarian organizations, including Mercy Corps, are partnering with the U.N., using both private contributions and funding from the international community to actively address the needs of Syrians caught in this terrible disaster.

Syria’s civil war is the worst humanitarian disaster of our time and the worst exodus since the Rwandan genocide 20 years ago. The number of innocent civilians suffering — more than nine million people are displaced, thus far — and the increasingly dire impact on neighboring countries can seem to overwhelming to understand.

Anti-government demonstrations began in March of 2011, part of the Arab Spring. But the peaceful protests quickly escalated after the government's violent crackdown, and rebels began fighting back against the regime. By July, army defectors had loosely organized the Free Syrian Army and many civilian Syrians took up arms to join the opposition. Divisions between secular and Islamist fighters, and between ethnic groups, continue to complicate the politics of the conflict.

Three years after it began, the full-blown civil war has killed over 190,000 people, half of whom are believed to be civilians. Bombings are destroying crowded cities and horrific human rights violations are widespread. Basic necessities like food and medical care are sparse.

The U.N. estimates that over 6.5 million people are internally displaced — an increase of more than two million in just six months. When you also consider refugees, over half of the country’s pre-war population of 23 million is need urgent humanitarian assistance, whether they still remain in the country or have escaped across the borders.

Thousands of Syrians flee their country every day. They often decide to finally escape after seeing their neighborhoods bombed or family members killed. The risks on the journey to the border can be as high as staying: Families walk for miles through the night to avoid being shot at by snipers or being caught by soldiers who will kidnap young men to fight for the regime.

The majority of Syrian refugees are living in Jordan and Lebanon, where Mercy Corps has been addressing their needs since 2012. In the region’s two smallest countries, weak infrastructure and limited resources are nearing a breaking point under the strain. More Syrians have escaped into northern Iraq at a newly opened border crossing. In a country that is still recovering from its own prolonged conflict, this influx is dramatic and brings additional challenges. An increasing number of Syrian refugees are fleeing across the border into Turkey, overwhelming urban host communities and creating new cultural tensions.

 In Turkey, the majority of refugees are trying to survive and find work, despite the language barrier, in urban communities.

Three million Syrians have registered with the United Nations High Commission of Refugees, who is leading the regional emergency response. But hundreds of thousands more await registration.

Every year of the conflict has seen an exponential growth in refugees. In 2012, there were 100,000 refugees. By April 2013, there were 800,000. That doubled to 1.6 million in less than four months. There are now three million Syrians scattered throughout the region — an increasing number that will soon surpass Afghans as the world's largest refugee population.

Without any legal way to work in Jordan and Lebanon, they struggle to find odd jobs and accept low wages that often don’t cover their most basic needs. The situation is slightly better in the Kurdish Autonomous region of northern Iraq, where Syrian Kurds can legally work. But language is still a barrier.

The lack of clean water and sanitation in crowded, makeshift settlements is an urgent concern. Diseases like cholera and polio can easily spread — even more life-threatening without enough medical services. In some areas with the largest refugee populations, water shortages have reached emergency levels; the supply is as low as 30 liters per person per day — one-tenth of what the average American uses.

According to the U.N., more than half of all Syrian refugees are under the age of 18. Most have been out of school for months, if not years. The youngest refugees face an uncertain future. Some schools have been able to divide the school day into two shifts and make room for more Syrian students. But there is simply not enough space for all the children, and many families cannot afford the transportation to get their kids to school. The youngest are confused and scared by their experiences, lacking the sense of safety and home they need. The older children are forced to grow up too fast, finding work and taking care of their family in desperate circumstances.

Mercy Corps is currently addressing the urgent needs of 2.5 million people both inside Syria and in neighboring countries.

Is there a way to end the war in Syria? Not at the moment, or in the foreseeable future. That is extremely bad news for every Syrian caught in the nightmare of a fourth year of bloodshed.

The UN estimates that nearly 200,000 people have been killed. Almost 11 million Syrians, virtually half of the population, have been forced to leave their homes. Of those, more than three million have fled the country.

A new war for Iraq and Syria by ISIS began a new chapter in Mideast. The rapid advance across Iraq by militant fighters from Islamic State, widely known as Isis, has thrown the country into chaos and led to US air strikes against their key positions. The brutal, extremist group, which claims to have fighters from across the world, has announced the establishment of a "caliphate" - an Islamic state - across parts of Iraq and Syria and forced many minority communities from their homes.

Islamic State stands with al-Qaeda as one of the most dangerous jihadist groups, after its gains in Syria and Iraq. Under its former name Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), it was formed in April 2013, growing out of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).It has since been disavowed by al-Qaeda, but has become one of the main jihadist groups fighting government forces in Syria and Iraq.

Americans used ISIS to fight the Assad regime but they could not succeed in removing or killing Assad.

In fact most deeply worried  party in the Syrian conflict is not USA but Saudi Arabia.