A newly arrived Syrian refugee waits to receive aid and rations, at Al-Zaatri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, on World Refugee Day, June 20, 2013. (Muhammad Hamed/Reuters)
Syria's Increasingly Grim Refugee Picture -- Armin Rosen, The Atlantic
The bleak future facing the country and its massive population of displaced.
One year ago, the United Nations said that over 78,000 people had fled Syria, as the conflict between President Bashar Al Assad and various opposition movements moved unmistakably towards full-on civil and even regional war. The number now tops 1.6 million, in addition to roughly 4.5 million internally displaced, whose movements are extremely difficult to track, and who, unlike refugees, are in conflict zones that are often outside the reach of international agencies and aid groups.
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