Watch This: Syrian Refugees Pour Into Iraqi Kurdistan In Thousands

Описание: Thousands of refugees from Syria are pouring over the border into Iraqi Kurdistan, the UN refugee agency says. Up to 10,000 crossed at Peshkhabour on Saturday, adding to an earlier influx of 7,000 on Thursday. The UN says the reasons are not fully clear. BBC's Jim Muir reports from Beirut in neighbouring Lebanon.

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Syria refugees pour into Iraqi Kurdistan in thousands (BBC, Aug 18, 2013)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middl...
" ... The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says this is one of the biggest single waves of refugees it has had to deal with since the uprising against the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011.While the reasons remain unclear, there has been a sharp rise in clashes between Syrian Kurds and anti-government Islamist militants. The charity Save the Children has launched an emergency response to the mass arrival, distributing basic supplies to those waiting to be registered ..."

Aleppo: A city where snipers shoot children (BBC, Aug 18, 2013)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23...
" ... The pavement he sits on is dotted with dark brown blood stains. "On average I treat about 10 people a day, every single day, but Fridays are always the worst," he says. "Yesterday about 30 people were shot here." Everybody reacts differently to the sound of the sniper's bullet. When shots ring out, the sea of people in the marketplace parts as most people press themselves against the walls of the buildings - as if, somehow, that will save them ..."

Kurdish-jihadist clashes fracture Syria opposition (BBC, Aug 18, 2013)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middl...
"A number of fierce battles between jihadists and armed Kurdish groups in Syria have added another layer to what is increasingly being described as a civil war within a civil war. The Kurds became the first anti-government group to have actively taken on the jihadists, inflicting high casualties on fighters of two al-Qaeda affiliated groups, the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Friction with the jihadists worsened as the militants, who had led a violent campaign to set up Islamic mini-states in northern Syria, tried to extend their power from Raqqah province to oil-rich territories held by secular Kurdish groups..."

After Khalidiya, Syria conflict goes on (BBC, July 29, 2013)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middl...
"Government and opposition sources are not quite yet in agreement on what is happening in Khalidiya. Syrian state TV began reporting on Sunday night that this opposition enclave of Homs, held by the rebels since the summer of 2011, had fallen. Activists and fighters in Homs denied it, saying the government had made big gains but there were still pockets of fighters hanging on. Later though, one opposition source said the enclave was "80% gone", while another said that fighters had been pushed to the margins..."

Syrian rebel fighters' civil war within a civil war (BBC, July 12, 2013)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middl...
"A senior rebel commander with the Free Syrian Army has been shot and killed by jihadis. As Paul Wood reports, the killing is part of an escalating struggle within the armed uprising between moderates and Islamists linked to al-Qaeda. The Free Syrian Army commander, stocky, bearded, dressed in camouflage, oozed menace and seethed with righteous anger. We were speaking about the biggest jihadi group in Syria, the Nusra Front, who had kidnapped his brother. "I know the names of all their emirs [leaders]. They will have nowhere to hide. This will be all-out war," he said. He explained that he was now free to take his revenge because he had just paid $50,000 to get his brother out. He had hated to do this because Nusra would just spend the money on weapons to use against the FSA..."


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