The thought's occurred to me: if everybody leaves, who won?
"Why are people leaving? Because they have lost hope after five years of endless conflict and they see only one winner, Daesh," Staffan de Mistura told journalists in Brussels, using another term for ISIS.
De Mistura said up to one million more people could be at risk in western Syria, potentially adding to the flood of refugees seeking safety in the European Union
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The international community was constantly trying but failing to come up with a formula but "there is no more time for such lengthy political processes," he said.
In failing to sink their differences, mainly over the future governance of Syria and the role of
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
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, world powers were by default supporting a military solution to a conflict which has now claimed nearly 250,000 lives, he said.
Some 11 million Syrians have been displaced from their homes by the conflict that began in March 2011, with four million becoming refugees.