It’s ten years to the day since Syrians took to the streets to protest against President Bashar al-Assad and his government. Thousands of people have been killed, injured, and displaced during the war. A decade after the Arab Spring, the hopes awakened by the protests have vanished but the underlying conditions which drove the unrest are undiminished.

Several protests are expected to take place in areas under opposition control. The UN Security Council holds open virtual briefing on Syria political negotiations, followed by closed consultations, on the 10th anniversary of the country’s war. UN Special Envoy, Geir Pedersen, expected to brief.
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee hearing on “Understanding the Policy and Legal Rationale of U.S. Airstrikes in Syria.”

The war in Syria has left the lives and futures of a generation of children hanging by a thread, UNICEF warned Monday, with nearly 90% of children in need of humanitarian assistance – a 20% year-on-year increase. More than half a million children under the age of five in Syria suffer from stunting as a result of chronic malnutrition, and nearly 2.45 million children in Syria and an additional 750,000 Syrian children in neighbouring countries aren’t in school.