Syrian Refugee Crisis

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Syrian refugees reach for food in a park where they live with their familes in Istanbul
AFP – Bulent Kilic

Syrians stream into Iraq’s Kurdistan Region  17 Aug 2013
Days before the sudden influx, monitors reported that people were arriving by bus and setting up makeshift camps on the Syrian side of the Peshkhabour border crossing.
SOURCE  UNHCR/G. Gubaeva

Syrians stream into Iraq’s Kurdistan Region  16 Aug 2013
Thousands of Syrians stream across a bridge over the Tigris River, entering Iraq on Thursday at a point where movement is normally tightly controlled by both countries. UNHCR’s Field Officer, Galiya Gubaeva, was on the ground with her camera. “There were lots of smiles when people arrived. Many had waited for days in temperatures reaching 40 degrees and so there was a sense of relief,” says Gubaeva.
SOURCE UNHCR/G. Gubaeva

A baby girl sleeps on a mattress in the room that has become home for her family
07 Jul 2013
A baby girl sleeps on a mattress in the room that has become home for her family. Originating from the town of Deir ez-Zur in eastern Syria, her family is one of four living in a partially-constructed home. About 30 people share the cold, draughty space in Erbil.
SOURCE UNHCR/B.Sokol

Newly arrived Syrian refugees await transfer   20 Jun 2013
Newly arrived Syrian refugees await transfer to the Za’atri refugee camp from the Jordanian military camp near the border.
SOURCE UNHCR/O.Laban-Mattei

Syrian-Kurdish refugee families queue to get food at the Quru Gusik refugee camp, 20 kilometres east of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on August 29, 2013. (AFP Photo / Safin Hamed)

Syrian-Kurdish refugee families queue to get food at the Quru Gusik refugee camp, 20 kilometres east of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on August 29, 2013. (AFP Photo / Safin Hamed)

Syrian-Kurdish refugee families queue to get food at the Quru Gusik refugee camp, 20 kilometres east of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on August 27, 2013. (AFP Photo / Safin Hamed)

Syrian-Kurdish refugee families queue to get food at the Quru Gusik refugee camp, 20 kilometres east of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on August 27, 2013. (AFP Photo / Safin Hamed)

Syrian refugees filling their buckets at Atmeh refugee camp, in the northern Syrian province of Idlib, Syria, Apr. 5, 2013

The Za’atri refugee camp near the Jordanian city of Mafraq, about five miles from the Jordan-Syria border, is sheltering more than 100,000 people. (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)