But that’s not all: some 2.5 million Syrians are internally displaced, and hundreds of thousands have sought refuge in camps in neighboring Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon.Īpproximately 70% of the nation’s infrastructure has been destroyed, according to a source inside Syria, and 15 million people are nearing destitution with employment and trade at a near-standstill.Īs the Syrian Revolution has grown increasingly militarized, the influx of foreign jihadists has grown. Not so in today’s Syria, where nineteen months into the popular revolution, Assad is responsible for more than 32,000 deaths. Bashar al-Assad liked to think his “après moi, le deluge” (loosely, after me there will be chaos) attitude would keep him in power for the rest of his life, and continue the Assad dynasty forever.