GENEVA — More than 200,000 Syrians have poured into neighboring
countries in the course of its 17-month-long conflict, with a recent
surge pushing the total past the 185,000 the U.N. refugee agency had
expected to flee by the end of this year.
The total reflects an increase of about 30,000 in the past week
alone to Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan but also includes those
awaiting registration in Jordan, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) said.
“There has been a dramatic increase in the number of refugees in the
region during August,” spokesman Adrian Edwards said in Geneva on
Friday, adding that the agency expected to issue new contingency
planning figures by around mid-September.
Turkey continues to see the largest refugee influx, with more than 74,000 registered as of Wednesday, Edwards said.
More
than 3,500 people fleeing violence in Syria have entered Turkey over
the past 24 hours, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management
Directorate said Friday, one of the highest daily flows since the start
of the uprising.
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