Aftermath of war

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that the number of Syrians fleeing war and persecution has now surpassed four million.

This has made the Syrian conflict the worst crisis for almost a quarter of a century, while Syrian refugees represent the biggest refugee population from a single conflict in a generation.

EU Interior Ministers countries will discuss the plan proposal according to which member states will need to distribute the 40,000 refugees coming from Italy and Greece. The decision will be made at the informal meeting in Luxembourg that is currently the Chair of the Council of Europe.

More than four million Syrians have fled the civil war ravaging their country to become refugees in the surrounding region -- a million of them in the past 10 months alone, the United Nations said on July 9.

The Mediterranean region, one of the oldest trade routes and centers of attraction for centuries, faces a serious terrorism threat, which has triggered a huge migrant and refugee influx to European countries. The ongoing developments will lead to the region?s fall in disfavor in economic, trade and tourism terms, as what happened centuries ago. 

Germany has donated 2 million euros to UNICEF to be used for the education of around 600,000 Syrian refugee children living in Turkey. 

Refugees in the western coastal town of ?zmir attempt to cross the Aegean wearing poor-quality locally produced life vests, further endangering their lives.  

According to the latest report of UNHCR, which was released on Wednesday, 137 000 crossed the Mediterranean Sea into Europe in the first half of 2015.

A large majority of the people making the dangerous sea crossing between January and June were fleeing war, conflict or persecution, making the current Mediterranean crisis primarily a refugee crisis.

A record 137,000 people made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe in the first half of 2015, most of them fleeing war, conflict and persecution, the United Nations said July 1.

Between 400 and 600 refugees from the Middle East and Africa pass through the southern Serbian town of Presevo every day.

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Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Thursday said his country is willing to accept a share of the 40,000 refugees, mainly from Syria and Eritrea, who recently arrived in Greece and Italy, which Brussels wants distributed round the EU.

Milanovic made the offer ahead of an EU summit dominated by migration issues and the Greek crisis.