For the first time since the Syrian conflict began in 2011, the number of people displaced by the country's bloody civil war has soared beyond 4 million, according to new numbers released by the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR on Thursday

Syria is now the conflict the single largest refugee crisis worldwide in the last 25 years.

"This is the biggest refugee population from a single conflict in a generation. It is a population that needs the support of the world but is instead living in dire conditions and sinking deeper into poverty," said UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, in a statement released on Thursday. Read more...

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