Photo Gallery Two Million Flee Syria
Syrian refugees walk at the Al-Zaatri refugee camp in Jordan. About 520,000 Syrians have sought refuge in Jordan since the beginning of the civil war. The United Nations now says more than two million Syrians have fled the violence in their country -- more than half of them children.
Jamal, an 11-year old Syrian refugee, points his toy gun as he plays with his friend at a refugee camp in eastern Lebanon. Lebanon has accepted the highest number of refugees from Syria -- about 720,000. Particularly alarming is the rapid rate at which the number of Syrian refugees is growing: The total number has doubled in the last six months, and increased almost tenfold in the past year.
Iraq has taken about 172,000 refugees from Syria. Many of them are Kurds, and have fled to the Kurdish regions of northern Iraq -- like to this refugee camp in Erbil.
Syrians line up for food distribution in the Maiber al-Salam refugee camp in the northern province of Aleppo, near the Turkish border. About 4.25 million people have been displaced within Syria because of the conflict.
Ake Sellstrom, head of a UN team investigating chemical weapons use in Syria, stands outside a military hospital in Damascus. The team has left Syria and is currently analyzing evidence collected there. Its mandate is limited to determining whether chemical weapons have been used in Syria -- not who used them.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks to the German parliament, the Bundestag, on September 3. She told lawmakers there was "no doubt" that a recent apparent chemical weapons attack outside Damascus was a "blatant violation of human rights." However she avoided directly blaming the Syrian government for the attack.
