The Largest Refugee Crisis Today: Syria
Sadly there are many places in the world that are in crisis today: Nigeria, Eritrea, Somalia, Afghanistan. But the biggest refugee crisis in the world today remains Syria as it has been for the past decade. More than a quarter of the world’s total refugee population are impacted by Syria’s ongoing conflict . Since 2011, more than 6.6 million Syrians have been forced to flee their country and another 6.7 million have been displaced within the country’s borders. Most Syrian refugees who have fled have ended up in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. This long-standing refugee crisis is the result of a multi-sided civil conflict between the Syrian Arab Republic, led by president Bashar al-Assad, who is supported by domestic and foreign allies, against varying combinations of domestic and foreign forces that oppose the Syrian government–as well as each other. It is a tumultuous, violent, clash of forces that has taken an incredible toll on the people of Syria. The unrest start