CAIRO: A new report from the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has reported that the total number of Syrian refugees who have registered with the agency has topped 200,000. It comes as a political solution in the ongoing conflict in Syria has continued to reach a stalemate and violence continues. The Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that refugees are presently located in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq with about 75,000 in Turkey. “More than 265,000 Syrians have fled their country since a political crisis broke out in March 2011 leaving 1.2 million internally displaced,” the UNHCR said in a statement carried by China's Xinhua news agency. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that his country is “unable to take more than 100,000 refugees and has proposed a UN buffer zone inside Syria to shelter them.” The UNHCR, despite facing massive violence, has continued to work in Syria in the past 18 months as over 20,000 people have been reported killed in the country. “Hotlines continue to operate giving counselling to refugees who ask about relocation, food distribution, financial assistance, residency, registration and resettlement,” UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said.
