Pontoon Bridge: Syria

Syria: Syrians fleeing fighting in Aleppo and other embattled parts of northern Syria began pouring into the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq last Thursday, taking advantage of a new pontoon bridge along the largely closed border, it said. , according to Reuters. The new figure includes some 20,000 now believed to have crossed over on Thursday and Saturday last week as well as 6,000 on Sunday and about 3,000 on Monday morning, he said. GENEVA - An estimated 29,000 Syrian refugees have entered northern Iraq since Thursday in one of the largest crossings in Syria's two-year-old conflict and the influx is continuing, the United Nations said on Monday. "It is a massive movement of people," said Dan McNorton, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.