refugees_sicilyCatch the latest news/updates by the UNHCR on the wave of refugees coming out of Syria by reading…

http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php#_ga=1.140877690.913936757.1441490715

They typically update it weekly. What you’ll learn there might shock you. For example, they’ve currently registered (officially) 4.4 million refugees from Syria. To put things in perspective, imagine a city the size of Madrid or Buenos Aires or Cape Town or Los Angeles suddenly deciding to evacuate en masse. All of those cities have WAY less population than the current wave of Syrian refugees who are REGISTERED, let alone those who haven’t registered properly yet.