UN: Syria Refugee Count Tops 3 Million

The United Nations says more than three million people have fled Syria's civil war, creating what it calls "the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era." In a statement Friday, the U.N. refugee agency said one million of those refugees fled in the past year alone from the "increasingly horrifying conditions" in Syria. The statement said the figure does not include hundreds of thousands who have not registered as refugees. It also said a further 6.5 million are...

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