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More than 2 million have fled Syria

More than two million Syrians have now fled their country, the UNHCR said Tuesday, as top US officials pressed a robust bid to secure Congress' support for military strikes against the Damascus regime.

03.09.2013

(AFP) More than two million Syrians have now fled their country, the UNHCR said Tuesday, as top US officials pressed a robust bid to secure Congress' support for military strikes against the Damascus regime.

The UN refugee agency's grim statistics come as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned that Western military action against him risked igniting a regional war and bringing chaos across the Middle East.