It's an unprecedented situation, even after the country's nine years of war.
But in the face of that conflagration, the international community again seems frozen with inaction. A U.N. Security Council meeting Thursday saw world leaders condemn the offensive, but announce no new action and the top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East could not share one urgent step the Trump administration is considering to respond to the crisis.
Since Dec. 1, over 948,000 people, including more than 560,000 children, have fled Assad's forces in the largest exodus of the entire bloody war, according to the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. In an area where approximately 300,000 residents once resided, there are now over three million people, leaving tens of thousands to sleep outside or in the rubble of bombed-out buildings amid freezing winter cold.
Displaced Syrian children play at an informal camp in Kafr Lusin village, on the bored with Turkey, in Idlib, Syria, Feb. 21, 2020. Displaced Syrian children try to climb over the Turkish border wall at an informal camp in Kafr Lusin village in Idlib, Syria, Feb. 21, 2020. The U.N., U.S., other countries and aid organizations have all called for a ceasefire. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft told the Security Council Thursday that a"a durable and verifiable ceasefire" was the only way to really address the humanitarian need.
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