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
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