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Desperate crisis in Syria "only getting worse"─── 09:10 Fri, 29 Aug 2014
Aleppo - More than three million Syrians are now registered as refugees and the desperate crisis is only getting worse.
The UN's refugee agency says Syria has become "the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era" with almost half of all Syrians forced to flee their homes.
The majority of refugees have fled to countries neighbouring Syria, with 1.14 million now seeking shelter in Lebanon.
More than 190,000 have been killed in Syria's three-year civil war. Opposition groups in Syria have been fighting forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad since his government suppressed protests against his rule in March 2011.
The UNHCR says one in every eight Syrians has fled across the border and a further 6.5 million are displaced within Syria - half of them children.
BBC
