7 Days In Syria [PATCHED]

In the dying days of the Saddam regime, I had an office inside the Ministry of Information. It was a sinister, paranoid place. Journalists begged, bribed and pleaded to stay inside the country to report. We were followed, videotaped; our phones were tapped. We all knew that our hotel rooms were equipped with hidden cameras. I dressed and undressed in the darkened bathroom.

7 Days in Syria

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With his arm around the nurse for support, they walked out of the courtyard of the military hospital. It took twenty minutes to walk a few feet; but he tells me that it felt like days. A guard asked him for his serial number. He gave the number the nurse had rehearsed with him while she looked on nervously.

Damascus has many faces. There are the opposition activists who are working night and day to bring down Assad, the ones who meet me in secret. Sometimes, when I return to my home in Paris, I hear news through the grapevine that they have disappeared. These are the ones who risk going to jail for up to forty-five days without charge. Even peaceful protesters have been thrown in jail simply for demonstrating. Their families are not told of their whereabouts.

Over 7,100 refugees arrived in Iraq from Syria within seven days, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday, as Turkish forces targeted Kurdish regions after the U.S. withdrew troops.

Two days after Trump's announcement, on Oct. 9, as U.S. troops were withdrawing, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a Turkish operation had begun in northeast Syria with the stated intention of ridding the area of terrorist threats. The operation targeted many of the Syrian-Kurdish forces the U.S. had supported.

In relief efforts, more attention is being put toward the hard-hit provinces of Hatay, Likewise in war-torn Northwest Syria the UN says up to 5.3 million people are homeless and nearly 900,000 people are in urgent need of hot food in both Türkiye and Syria. The Türkiye earthquakes hit the hardest in 5 governorates in Syria including Idleb, Aleppo, Hama, Latakia, and Tartus. According to the UN, over 115 schools have been destroyed and hundreds more damaged in Syria. On day seven of relief efforts, the World Health Organization announced they were in talks with the President of Syria to urgently advocate for more access to the most hardhit areas since the regular UN-route was badly damaged in the quakes. Authorization is needed from Damascus in order to move forward in their discussions and WHO Director-General is hopeful however the UN has acknowledged today that aid is not getting to the people of Syria fast enough. Just 5% of the impacted sites and towns in opposition-controlled areas of Northwest Syria are being covered by search-and-rescue operations, according to the UN. Due to the damaged crossing, access was delayed in providing cross-border aid in the first days of the emergency. In addition, more than 30,000 displacement movements were recorded in the area during the week after the collapse of a dam caused flooding and further destruction of homes. Ninety percent of the population in Northwest Syria already depended on humanitarianKarahmanmaras, Adiyaman, and Malatya. Over 6,500 buildings have collapsed in Türkiye, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless in the freezing cold; shelters and evacuations are not enough yet and the situation is dire for those still left on the street. Some airports and infrastructure has been fixed including Hatay, providing better access to personnel, medical teams, and volunteers but some 13.5 million affected people in Türkiye may still need support.

A1: The reverberations from the earthquakes were felt in Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, and Jordan, though initial estimates suggest the greatest devastation occurred in southeastern Turkey and northern Syria. Home to over 2 million people, Gaziantep is the sixth largest city in Turkey. Within 24 hours, an estimated 5,600 buildings were destroyed in Turkey and over 5,000 people had died in Turkey and Syria, though these figures are likely to grow in the coming days.

First, since the initial earthquake struck when many people were still at home, most were likely to have been in the thousands of buildings that were destroyed. Search and rescue operations will continue for the next few days, after which efforts will shift to recovery and ultimately to rebuilding damaged and destroyed infrastructure. The physical and psychological human impact will be far greater and longer lasting. In the coming days and weeks and months, international donors and NGOs will need to draw on lessons from other rapid onset disasters (e.g., tsunami and hurricane relief) which share similar destructive qualities. These lessons include the critical need to coordinate assistance, to build local resilience, and to draw from and strengthen local response structures.

The activist stated that deserters can face 260 days in jail and a fine but in practice, the fine is usually dropped and in some cases ordinary deserters are often simply sent back to their units (Activist 23 July 2014). However, according to the activist, deserters, especially deserting officers or "higher ranking" soldiers, may be seen as "treasonous and against the regime," and have been subjected to detention and "torture" (ibid.). Corroboration could not be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate within the time constraints of this Response.

AP reported that in June 2012, the Assad government issued an amnesty giving draft-dodgers who were still in the country 90 days to report for duty "without punishment," while those living abroad were given 120 days (6 June 2012). The scholar also mentioned that the Assad government issued amnesties, but could not provide further details on their length and conditions (Scholar 21 July 2014).

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared seven days of national mourning following the deadly quakes that hit the country Monday. Turkish flags will fly at half-staff across the nation and at its diplomatic missions overseas.

"I have directed my team to remain in close contact with our Turkish allies and our humanitarian partners in the coming days to determine what the region needs," Blinken said, adding that an "initial assistance response" for Turkey was already underway, "and U.S.-supported humanitarian organizations in Syria are responding to the earthquakes' effects across the country. We are determined to do all that we can to help those affected by these earthquakes in the days, weeks, and months ahead."

Fourth, it is important to ensure adequate supplies of essential medicines for a minimum of 60 days as part of the national stockpile. Economic impact has affected the hike in the cost of locally produced medicines, making it unaffordable for people and unprofitable for producers, thus limiting access to medicines to millions of people in Syria in these critical times.

Ascochyta blight, caused by Ascochyta fabae Speg., is a common and destructive disease of faba bean (Vicia faba L.) in the Middle East, Europe, Canada, New Zealand (4), and Australia. The main sources of inoculum are debris and seeds from which spores are air- and splashborne. The teleomorph of A. fabae has been reported previously only from England (2). The presence of the teleomorph supports the variability reported in the fungus populations from Canada (3) and Poland (1). Stems of faba bean plants, severely infected with A. fabae, were collected in July 1999 from Tel Hadya, Syria. The plants previously had been inoculated with a mixture of isolates of the pathogen, collected from the main faba bean-growing regions in Syria between 1996 and 1998, and kept under shade. The infested stems were used to inoculate the ICARDA Faba Bean Ascochyta Nursery planted on 29 November 1999. During late January 2000, symptoms appeared on the susceptible faba bean genotype. Stem pieces from debris used for inoculations were collected from the field and examined microscopically for the presence of ascomata. The maximum, minimum, and mean temperatures and rainfall at Tel Hadya during December 1999 were 16.5, 5.8, and 8.7C and 22.4 mm, respectively. There were 16 nights when temperatures dropped below 0C, and 10 nights when temperatures were between 0 and 5C. Ascomata of A. fabae ranged from 76 to 209 μm wide (average 158 3.9 μm) and 101 to 285 μm in length (average 178 4.1 μm). Asci were 10 to 15 μm wide (average 14 0.3 μm) and 51 to 96 μm long (average 63 1.1 μm). Ascospores were 5 to 8 μm wide (average 7 0.2 μm) and 15 to 20 μm in length (average 17 0.3 μm). These measurements are comparable to those reported from England. Individual ascomata were dissected from stem tissue and fixed to the lids of petri dishes containing 2% water agar. After 24 h, the petri dishes were examined microscopically to locate ascospores on the surface of the medium. Germinating ascospores and developing colonies were transferred from water agar to faba bean dextrose agar. Colonies characteristic of A. fabae developed on the latter medium within 7 days of incubation at 20 2C. Pathogenicity tests of developing colonies were carried out on 3-week-old faba bean plants (Giza 4) using a spore suspension (2.5 105 spores per ml) of each of the isolates. Both inoculated seedlings and control seedlings inoculated with sterile water were covered with plastic bags for 48 h in a plastic house maintained at 18 2C. After removal of the plastic bags, seedlings were wetted four times per day by spraying with tap water to runoff. Inoculated plants showed characteristic symptoms of Ascochyta blight 15 days after inoculation. The fungus was reisolated from lesions that developed on leaflets of all inoculated seedlings, but not from any of the control seedlings. This is the first report of the occurrence of A. fabae, the sexual stage of Didymella fabae Jellis & Punithalingam in Syria, and indicates that the fungus could develop population variants. These findings have implications for breeding for resistance to Ascochyta blight. References: (1) A. Filipowicz. Faba Bean Abstr. 4:47, 1983. (2) G. J. Jellis and E. Punithalingam. Plant Pathol. 40:150, 1991. (3) P. D. Kharbanda and C. C. Bernier. Can. J. Plant. Pathol. 2:139, 1980. (4) K. Y. Rachid et al. Plant Dis. 75:852, 1991. 041b061a72