Syria: 85 groups call for international help to end the conflict
03/24/2015. 85 organizations of Syrian civil society have called for help from the international community, lamenting having been “abandoned” by it, more concerned with the fight against terrorism by the daily horrors of the conflict ravaging their country for four years.
More than 215,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict, which began in March 2011 by a popular uprising suppressed by the regime and was then transformed into a devastating civil war.
“Extremism grows in rubble of our towns and villages ravaged, and will continue to increase, unless we act together”
Read the article (in french) on the Yahoo site (from AFP)
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