A United Nations report released in December, 2012, stated that the conflict had
“become overtly sectarian in nature”
Definition of sectarian: relating to religious or political sects and the differences between them.
The violence in Syria has caused millions to flee their homes. As of March 2015, Al-Jazeera estimates 10.9 million Syrians, or almost half the population, have been displaced. 3.8 million have been made refugees. As of 2013, 1 in 3 of Syrian refugees (about 667,000 people) sought safety in Lebanon (normally 4.8 million population). Others have fled to Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq. Turkey has accepted 1,700,000 (2015) Syrian refugees, half of whom are spread around a cities and dozen camps placed under the direct authority of the Turkish Government. Satellite images confirmed that the first Syrian camps appeared in Turkey in July 2011, shortly after the towns of Deraa, Homs, and Hama were besieged. In September 2014, the UN stated that the number of Syrian refugees had exceeded 3 million.
The Kansas City Star:
U.S. steps up participation in Syrian civil war to combat the Islamic State
The editor Lewis Diuguid describes the Syrian civil war as a devilish turn of human nature as his opening line:
“War is such a crazy, unpredictable beast.”
Diuguid’s use of the word ‘beast’, immediately condones a sense of fear and anguish, relating to specifically the torment families of the Syrian community have to go through.