“…Mass population expulsion is often a strategic goal, which is why the new wars have led to such an upsurge in forced migration.The conflict in Syria, which broke out in the city of Dera’a in February 2011, is emblematic of Kaldor’s conception of the new wars. What began as a local popular uprising ultimately became a complex multilateral conflict in which multiple players—local (the Syrian regime, the Syrian opposition, the Kurdish units and Free Syrian Army), national (United States of America (USA), Russia, Türkiye, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the European Union (EU)), international (the United Nations (UN) and its agencies) and transnational (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Army of Conquest, Jabhat Fateh Alsham aka El Nusra)—involved themselves from both inside and outside of the country (Albasoos and Al-Maqbali, 2017). One of the more potent symbols of the conflict, which involved Shi’a-Sunni clashes along with pro- and anti-Assad divisions, has been the plight of the Yarmouk Camp.…”