Who is winning in syria

The estimated death toll is , people, but it could actually be much higher. The United Nations Refugee Agency estimates that 5. Even as the conflict winds down, it is unclear when or if they will be able to return.

Once the fighting finally comes to an end, Assad will still face the challenge of rebuilding the country, including areas where he allegedly deployed chemical weapons against his own citizens. The question of who will foot the bill remains an open one. The U. Former U. President Donald Trump was eager to distance the U. WPR has covered the Syrian civil war in detail and continues to examine key questions about what will happen next.

Al-Assad garnered There were no independent monitors of the one-day vote. The competition was symbolic, with two little-known candidates running against al-Assad. In the previous polls in , he had won nearly 89 percent of the vote. His new term starts with the country still devastated by 10 years of war that killed hundreds of thousands and sliding deeper into a worsening economic crisis. The United Nations estimates that more than 80 percent of Syrians live below the poverty line.

The Syrian currency is in a free fall and basic services and resources have become scarce or are offered at exorbitant parallel market prices. Fighting has largely subsided, but parts of Syria remain out of government control and foreign troops and armed groups are deployed in different parts of the country. The conflict that began in started after the government cracked down on peaceful protests, turning the opposition against the decades-long rule of the al-Assad family into an armed rebellion.

His father, Hafez al-Assad, led Syria for 30 years until his death in For the future of Syria's children and its youth, let's start from tomorrow our campaign of work to build hope and build Syria," Assad wrote on his campaign's Facebook page.

Tightening U. Rallies with thousands of people waving Syrian flags and holding pictures of Assad while singing and dancing took place all day Thursday in celebration of the election. The vote was boycotted by the U.