A/HRC/37/72 Contents Page I. Mandate and methodology ............................................................................................................ 3 II. Introductory remarks ..................................................................................................................... 3 III. Political and military developments .............................................................................................. 6 IV. Fall of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant .................................................................................. 9 A. Raqqah .................................................................................................................................. 9 B. Dayr al-Zawr ......................................................................................................................... 12 V. Internally displaced persons .......................................................................................................... 13 VI. Returnees and barriers to return .................................................................................................... 13 VII. Detained and missing persons ...................................................................................................... 14 VIII. Life under siege ............................................................................................................................. 15 IX. Erosion of civilian infrastructure ................................................................................................... 16 A. Hospitals .............................................................................................................................. 16 B. Schools.................................................................................................................................. 17 C. Markets ................................................................................................................................. 17 Recommendations ......................................................................................................................... 17 I. Map of the Syrian Arab Republic .................................................................................................. 19 II. Siege of eastern Ghutah (Rif Damascus) ....................................................................................... 20 III. Internally displaced persons .......................................................................................................... 27 IV. Erosion of civilian infrastructure ................................................................................................... 32 X. Annexes 2