U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR: Massoud Barzani

Massoud Barzani: BAGHDAD/PESHKHABOUR, Iraq - A sudden mass influx of 30,000 Kurdish refugees from Syria into Iraq increases the likelihood that Iraq's Kurdish region will act to protect its kin across the border, an adviser to Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani said on Monday, according to Reuters. "It is a massive movement of people," Dan McNorton, spokesman of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR , told on Monday and By Suadad al-Salhy and Murad Talaat The United Nations said nearly 30,000 refugees had crossed in the past few days, making it one of the biggest single outward migrations of a civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people and driven millions from their homes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.