Electricity In Syria

The ISIS group's former Syrian stronghold Raqa has been captured, but it lies ruined, littered with explosives, and lacking electricity or running water for residents desperate to return

Large parts of Damascus have survived almost six years of conflict in Syria relatively unscarred, but shortages of fuel and electricity, spiralling prices and a lack of jobs mean the lives of its residents are far from unscathed.

Syria's electricity supply was gradually returning after it was cut across the country today and Internet connections were briefly disrupted, state media said.

In the fall of 2012, fighters from the Free Syrian Army took over Eastern Ghouta, a semi-agricultural area about eight miles northeast of Damascus. Government forces responded by placing the area under siege, cutting off water, electricity, gas, medical assistance and bread.

Electricity generation in Syria has dropped by 56 per cent since the civil war began in March 2011, the pro-government Al-Watan newspaper reported today.

Sunni militants from the Islamic State group on Thursday seized Iraq's largest dam, placing them in control of enormous power and water resources and access to the river that runs through the heart of Baghdad.

Images broadcast on a British television channel on Monday showed bandaged patients chained to hospital beds by their ankles, while a whip and electrical cable lie nearby.

The ISIS group's former Syrian stronghold Raqa has been captured, but it lies ruined, littered with explosives, and lacking electricity or running water for residents desperate to return

Large parts of Damascus have survived almost six years of conflict in Syria relatively unscarred, but shortages of fuel and electricity, spiralling prices and a lack of jobs mean the lives of its residents are far from unscathed.

Syria's electricity supply was gradually returning after it was cut across the country today and Internet connections were briefly disrupted, state media said.

In the fall of 2012, fighters from the Free Syrian Army took over Eastern Ghouta, a semi-agricultural area about eight miles northeast of Damascus. Government forces responded by placing the area under siege, cutting off water, electricity, gas, medical assistance and bread.

Electricity generation in Syria has dropped by 56 per cent since the civil war began in March 2011, the pro-government Al-Watan newspaper reported today.

Sunni militants from the Islamic State group on Thursday seized Iraq's largest dam, placing them in control of enormous power and water resources and access to the river that runs through the heart of Baghdad.

Images broadcast on a British television channel on Monday showed bandaged patients chained to hospital beds by their ankles, while a whip and electrical cable lie nearby.