| DON'T MISS THIS! In 4 years years of war, nearly half of Syria's population of 23 million people has been uprooted. Within Iraq itself, more than two million people have fled conflict and the terror unleashed by extremist groups. These refugees and displaced people have witnessed unspeakable brutality. Their children are out of school, they are struggling to survive, and they are surrounded on all sides by violence...Nothing prepares you for the reality of so much individual human misery: for the stories of suffering and death, and the gaze of hungry, traumatized children. The spread of extremism, the surge in foreign fighters, the threat of new terrorism -- only an end to the war in Syria will begin to turn the tide on these problems. Without that, we are just tinkering at the edges.Syria's neighbors have taken in nearly four million Syrian refugees, but they are reaching their limits. |
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