Syria Overtakes Afghanistan as Largest Source of Global Refugees
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Syria topped Afghanistan as the country with the largest refugee population under United Nations care, as the country’s civil war raged for a fourth year.
By June 2014 more than 3 million Syrians, over 10 percent of the population, had fled their country. That accounted for 23 percent of all refugees registered with the UN Refugee Agency, the organization said in a new report released today.