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Syrian Refugees Fleeing To Iraq's Kurdistan Region By The Thousands, UN Says
08/16/13 06:32 AM ET EDT AP

GENEVA -- The U.N. refugee agency says an unusually large wave of Syrian families has been pouring into Iraq's Kurdistan region this week.

Adrian Edwards, a spokesman for the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, says thousands of Syrians – mainly from Syria's largest city, Aleppo, and several poor northeastern Syrian regions – were part of a "sudden, massive movement" into northern Iraq.

He told reporters in Geneva on Friday that up to 7,750 Syrian refugees a day had crossed a Tigris River bridge over the border, but said the reasons for the surge were unclear.
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