The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) ( ar, الهلال الأحمر العربي السوري ''Al-Hilal al-Aḥmar al-Arabi al-Souri'') is a humanitarian

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. Its headquarters are in the Syrian capital city of Damascus. The society was founded in Damascus, Syria in 1942, and admitted to the

International Committee of the Red Cross The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC; french: Comité international de la Croix-Rouge) is a humanitarian organization which is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and it is also a three-time Nobel Prize Laureate. State parties (signa ...

(ICRC) in 1946. Some of founders included were Abdul-Kader Zahra, Jamil Kabara, Sami Al-Meedani, Shafiq Diyab, Mustafa Shawky, Ahmed Kadary, Wade Saydawy, Mounib Rifai, and others. The society is part of the

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and has been recognized by the

ICRC The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC; french: Comité international de la Croix-Rouge) is a humanitarian organization which is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and it is also a three-time Nobel Prize Laureate. State parties (signator ...

. The SARC has 14 branches all over Syria and 75 sub-branches. Volunteer based, the SARC has around 11,000 trained volunteers that work in the areas of first aid, first aid training, disaster response and relief, psycho-social support, and health in general. SARC also partners with local charity organizations and works with the relevant components of the Syrian community, with UN agencies and

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s. The organization is working in the Syrian civil war and is engaged in evacuation of people from war torn region to other places. It is shifting people and militants who surrender and relocating them to other places. When

Darayya Darayya ( ar, دَارَيَّا, Dārayyā) is a suburb of Damascus in Syria, the centre of Darayya lying south-west of the centre of Damascus. Administratively it belongs to Rif Dimashq. History and population Darayya is one of the oldest c ...

surrendered to government forces, the militants were relocated by the Red Crescent. SARC volunteers and hospitals have been the targets of numerous attacks since the beginning of the Syrian civil war. In 2016 a UN aid convoy composed mostly of SARC workers driving near

Urum al-Kubra Urum al-Kubrah ( ar, أورم الكبرى, also spelled Urem al-Kubra) is a town in western Aleppo Governorate, northwestern Syria. With a population of 5,391 as per the 2004 census, it is the administrative center of Nahiya Urum al-Kubrah in Ata ...

was bombed, killing at least 12 SARC drivers and destroying aid supplies in a warehouse. According to the ICRC 20 civilians were also killed in the attack. UN Secretary General

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condemned the attack and temporarily suspended UN aid convoys after the attack. A UN investigation carried out by the

Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic was set up by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on 22 August 2011 to investigate human rights violations during the Syrian Civil War to establish the facts ...

found that the Syrian government deliberately carried out the attack on the aid convoy which they allege amounts to a potential war crime.

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{{Authority control 1942 establishments in Mandatory Syria Red Cross and Red Crescent national societies Medical and health organizations based in Syria Organizations established in 1942

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