Satellite images highlight the devastation caused by four years of
conflict in Syria, with most of the country now plunged into darkness.
Eighty-three per cent of the lights have gone out in Syria as a humanitarian crisis continues to grip the country, according to scientists at the Wuhan University in China.
In Aleppo, one of the cities hardest hit by civil war and Isis's insurgency, a staggering 93 per cent of the city is now in the dark.
The research was conducted by academics in co-operation with the WithSyria coalition of 130 non-governmental organizations.
Former Labour foreign secretary David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee, said: "Four years since this crisis began, Syria's people have been plunged into the dark: destitute, fearful, and grieving for the friends they have lost and the country they once knew."
The images come as international powers were accused of failing victims in Syria in the year after the UN Security Council Resolution 2139 was adopted.
The resolution called for "an urgent increase in access to humanitarian aid in Syria" and demanded that "all parties immediately cease attacks against civilians, end arbitrary detention, kidnapping and torture, and lift sieges of populated areas".
However, a report by humanitarian agencies found the resolutions and
the hope created by them "have rung hollow" for citizens in Syria.
It concluded: "In the 12 months since Resolution 2139 was passed, civilians in Syria have witnessed ever-increasing destruction suffering and death."
Eighty-three per cent of the lights have gone out in Syria as a humanitarian crisis continues to grip the country, according to scientists at the Wuhan University in China.
In Aleppo, one of the cities hardest hit by civil war and Isis's insurgency, a staggering 93 per cent of the city is now in the dark.
The research was conducted by academics in co-operation with the WithSyria coalition of 130 non-governmental organizations.
Former Labour foreign secretary David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee, said: "Four years since this crisis began, Syria's people have been plunged into the dark: destitute, fearful, and grieving for the friends they have lost and the country they once knew."
The images come as international powers were accused of failing victims in Syria in the year after the UN Security Council Resolution 2139 was adopted.
The resolution called for "an urgent increase in access to humanitarian aid in Syria" and demanded that "all parties immediately cease attacks against civilians, end arbitrary detention, kidnapping and torture, and lift sieges of populated areas".
It concluded: "In the 12 months since Resolution 2139 was passed, civilians in Syria have witnessed ever-increasing destruction suffering and death."
