New satellite imagery shows the scale of the destruction in Idlib, the last rebel stronghold in Syria's civil war, where the UN says nearly a million people have been displaced in the last 3 months.
Since the conflict began in 2011, this marks the"single largest forced displacement since the start of the Syrian crisis," State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said earlier this week. Three out of four people in Syria have been forcibly displaced since the conflict began, according toThe sheer level of destruction in Idlib means that displaced people have little to come back to when the fighting eventually stops, humanitarian workers say.
The images were released on the eve of talks on the Syria crisis between Turkish and Russian leaders. Turkey is, and Russia is backing the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The satellite images show rapid growth of camps for the displaced populations. For example, in the images analyzed by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, a photo from September 2017 shows a small camp on the edge of a large empty space and agricultural field.toggle captionIn September 2018, the satellite image shows previously empty space filled with small structures, in what the researchers say is likely a"self-settled and spontaneous camp.
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