FREE Established 1961 Friday ISSUE NO: 17991 RABIA ALAWWAL 25, 1441 AH FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 Consultations to form new Democrat debate exposes divides Clippers win overtime 9 Cabinet could take two weeks 14 despite a united front on Trump 45 thriller over Celtics Al-Kandari Diwaniya captures the essence of vintage Kuwait SEE PAGES 4 & 5 2 Friday Local Friday, November 22, 2019 PHOTO OF THE DAY Syrian refugees Local Spotlight By Muna Al-Fuzai
[email protected] ith the arrival of winter, calls for assistance to Syrian refugees, whether financial or Wmaterial, such as clothes or blankets, have been circulated. I also heard the same plea on the radio recently. But I started to wonder why are there still Syrian refugees living in tents and why are they still abroad? Why don’t they return to their homeland and rebuild their houses? At least the money given to them by individuals or charities will be beneficial. Syrian refugees are citizens who fled from Syria as the Syrian crisis escalated with the entry of terrorist militias. The number of Syrian refugees abroad is estimated at 7.5 million, while the number of internal- ly-displaced persons in Syria is over six million. Turkey hosts the largest number of refugees, followed by Jordan and Lebanon. The Syrian refugee crisis is one of the longest and most complex humanitarian emergencies ongoing KUWAIT: Kuwait City as seen through Souq Sharq’s marina. — Photo by Noura Edhbayah (KUNA) since 2011, and the vast majority of refugees from Syria have found shelter in host communities in neighboring countries.