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U.S. to Accept 5,000 to 8,000 Syrian Refugees Next Year
2015-08-27 08:29:51| IT Services - Topix.net
According to Agence France-Presse , the United States will accept between 5,000 and 8,000 Syrian refugees in 2016. This is a modest number when measured on the scale of mass migration - a veritable drop in the bucket compared to the tide sweeping through Europe - but still much larger than what Americans were previously told to expect by their government.
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Syrian economy halved by conflict
2015-06-23 16:35:50| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Syria's economic output has shrunk by up to 60% since the conflict began, according to estimates in a new report released by British think-tank Chatham House.
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Palestinians reject Syrian army offensive to drive Daesh from Damascus refugee camp
2015-04-10 14:58:03| IT Services - Topix.net
The Palestinian Liberation Organization has rejected the notion of participating in the conflict in Syria's Yarmouk camp, ruling out involvement in a joint military operation with the Syrian regime to expel Daesh, the Agence France Presse reports. for talks, said 14 Palestinian factions supported the idea of a joint military operation with the Syrian army to expel the Daesh and we categorically refuse to become one of the parties involved in the armed conflict that is taking place in Yarmouk," the statement said.
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Researchers Link Syrian Conflict to a Drought Made Worse by Climate Change
2015-03-03 10:05:40| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Drawing one of the strongest links yet between global warming and human conflict, researchers said Monday that an extreme drought in Syria between 2006 and 2009 was most likely due to climate change, and that the drought was a factor in the violent uprising that began there in 2011. The drought was the worst in the country in modern times, and in a study published Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the scientists laid the blame for it on a century-long trend toward...
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How Global Warming Helped Cause the Syrian War
2015-03-03 06:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wired: The bloody conflict in Syria--which enters its fifth year this month--has killed almost 200,000 people, created 3.2 million refugees, and given rise to the murderous extremist group known as the Islamic State. The roots of the civil war extend deep into Syrias political and socioeconomic structures. But another cause turns out to be global warming. When violence erupted in Syria during the Arab Spring in 2011, the country had been mired in a three-year drought--its worst in recorded history....
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