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UN: On 21 May 2012, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed for calm after the clashes. [123] On 22 August 2012, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, in a meeting of the Security Council, described the situation as "precarious" and warned that a deteriorating situation in Syria could destabilise Lebanon. [124] [125]
Protesters throughout Syria remained defiant despite intensifying arrests and attacks in Daraa and Douma. [1] The Syrian military continued shelling homes in Daraa with tanks. [2] As the military siege on Daraa continued, Assad's security forces allegedly killed 40 civilians elsewhere in the town of Tel Kalakh.
Syria proposed to instead render the facilities inoperable by sealing their entrances; the U.S. and its allies opposed this proposal and insisted on destruction. [54] By 21 March, Syria's entire supply of mustard agent had been removed. [85] On 27 April, Syria missed its revised 60-day deadline for complete removal of its full chemical weapons ...
Between 2007 and 2010, Syria experienced its worst drought on instrumental record, made more likely by climate change. [4] [5] It has been proposed that the drought caused the collapse of agriculture in Syria and contributed to increased migration and contributed to the escalation of violence in 2011, although more recent analyses in Political Geography and Nature have challenged this narrative.
On 12 November 2011, the Arab League voted to suspend Syria from the organization if Al-Assad's government failed to stop military action by 16 November and invited Syria's opposition parties to join talks in the League's Cairo headquarters. Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Mauritania, and Yemen voted against the action, while Iraq abstained.
Since the start of uprisings across Syria in 2011, Syrian Arab Armed Forces and pro-Assad paramilitary forces have been implicated in more than 300 chemical attacks in Syria. [ 5 ] Investigations have found that both the Ba'athist government of Bashar al-Assad and ISIL militants have used chemical weapons, with the vast majority of attacks ...
Syria had been on Reporters Without Borders' Enemy of the Internet list since 2006 when the list was established. [11] In 2009, the committee to Protect Journalists named Syria number three in a list of the ten worst countries in which to be a blogger, given the arrests, harassment, and restrictions which online writers in Syria faced. [12]
The area has also been nicknamed Federal Northern Syria and the Democratic Confederalist Autonomous Areas of Northern Syria. [9] The first name of the local government for the Kurdish-dominated areas in Afrin District , Ayn al-Arab District (Kobanî), and northern al-Hasakah Governorate was "Interim Transitional Administration", adopted in 2013 ...