Baladi News - Agencies
Syria's Assad regime and its allies have forced approximately 130,000 people to migrate -- through fierce attacks and blockades -- from cities it captured this year.
On the occasion of International Migrants Day (Dec. 18), Anadolu Agency collected data from local sources that suggests that 2018 -- for Syrians -- would be remembered as a year of displacement and forced migration.
Although opposition-held areas of Damascus, Homs, Daraa and Quneitra were all designated "de-escalation zones" (in line with earlier agreements signed in Astana), this did not stop the regime from attacking and blockading them, and forcing numerous residents to leave their homes.
Syrians in these regions who remain opposed to the regime were relocated to refugee camps in the country’s north, where they continue to face difficult living conditions.
According to data collected by the Syria Intervention Coordinators, a local NGO devoted to helping civilians, the regime and its allies have forced as many as 128,926 people to leave their homes in the period from March 14 of this year to July 31.
Source: Anadolu Agency.