Syria

Syria: The UN has characterized the refugee crisis as one of the greatest tragedies of this century, according to CBC. "We're certainly seeing a sense of extreme abandonment, of insecurity," said Kessler, adding that many of the refugees are traumatized children who have not been able to attend school in over two years. Strike on Syria gets support from Republican, Democrat leaders REFUGEES Mapping the world's displaced people Number of refugees, internally displaced people hits 18-year-high UN officials counted 110,000 Syrian refugees in Egypt, 168,000 in Iraq, 515,000 in Jordan, 716,000 in Lebanon and 460,000 in Turkey, as of the end of August. They expect the numbers to grow, as more Syrians are now forcibly displaced than people from any other country and More than 2 million refugees have fled Syria into neighbouring countries, while another 4.25 million are displaced inside the country, according to the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR. More than half of the refugees are children. Peter Kessler, spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, told News from Lebanon that people living in sprawling refugee camps some the size of small North American cities, with up to 120,000 inhabitants are growing anxious and fearful by the day. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.