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Friday, May 24, 2013 | 5:18 a.m.

Aid Workers Struggling to Cope With Syria Crisis

This refugee camp in the Kurdish region of Iraq is now home to some 50,000 Syrian refugees. Up until June of last year that number was a manageable 2,000. But as the fighting between Syrian government forces and rebels intensified, Syrians began fleeing in greater numbers. Yesterday, the UN said a million people have now fled Syria's civil war And doctors here are struggling to keep up with the demand for treatment.
 
 
 

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