U.N. preparing for Iraqis to flee Syria
Middle East • May 2011 • Views: 612
A heavily U.S.-funded refugee relief program has begun quietly preparing for a humanitarian crisis on the Iraqi-Syrian border.
The U.N. Refugee Agency in Iraq has amassed hundreds of tents, blankets, plastic sheeting and other supplies just inside Iraq’s western border in case some of the more than 400,000 Iraqis who fled to Syria because of war and sectarian killing need to rush back to escape an escalating conflict in Syria.