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2,000 refugees flee Syria for Lebanon amid shelling; UN
Up to 2,000 refugees fleeing violence in Syria are crossing the border into northern Lebanon, a spokesman for the United Nations refugee agency told Reuters on Sunday. “Between one and two thousand (Syrians) are in the process of coming from Syria to Lebanon,” the UNHCR’s deputy representative in Lebanon Jean Paul Cavalieri told Reuters. “Numbers [...]
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Up to 30,000 Syrians may have crossed into Lebanon
Up to 30,000 Syrian refugees may have crossed into Lebanon in the past 48 hours, in what would be a sharp increase of people fleeing fighting in the country, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday. Syria’s borders re... Read Post
Syrian refugees flee violence, talk of mass graves
After days of relentless shelling and sniper attacks, thousands of Syrian refugees streamed across the border into Turkey with horrific accounts Friday of mass graves, massacres and burned-out homes. Read Post
Syria: Refugees flee border camps as troops deploy -- Turkey forces move to border: War?
Hundreds of Syrian refugees are fleeing across the border into Turkey to escape an assault by Syrian troops in the area, witnesses say. Tanks and snipers have entered the village of Khirbet al-Jouz - a base for makeshift refugee cam... Read Post