More Than 4 Million Refugees Have Now Fled Syria, UN Says Thursday July 09,2015

 

More than 4 million Syrians have fled abroad since the 2011 outbreak of civil war, the largest number from any crisis in almost 25 years, the United Nations said Thursday July 09,2015

A recent wave of people leaving Syria and an update of Turkish statistics confirmed the tragic milestone, according to the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR. The agency said 7.6 million additional people have been displaced from their homes within Syria by the fighting.

The 4 million refugees are the most to flee a conflict since the Afghan civil war forced 4.6 million out of their country beginning in 1992.

Turkey has borne much of the impact as more than 1.8 million Syrians in Turkey have made it the biggest host of refugees in the world, an expensive undertaking that Turkey is bearing mostly on its own.

Young Syrian refugee children break their fasting in Akcakale, Turkey, during the holy month of Ramadan, on June 20, 2015

 

Syrian refugees wait to cross the Syria-Turkey border crossing in Tal Abyad, Syria, on June 22, 2015