More than 3,500 Syrians fled their homeland for Turkey late Thursday and early Friday, bringing the total number of refugees in the 17-month conflict to over 200,000, a UN refugee agency reported Friday.
Heavy fighting in and around Aleppo has sent tens of thousands of people scurrying north into nearby Turkey, and thousands of others have sought refuge in Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq, as rebels and regime forces continue to battle for control of the country.
Some 2,200 people entered Jordan overnight, a record, a United Nations High Commission for Refugees official told Reuters.
There are now 202,512 refugees in the region surrounding Syria, the official said.
Turkey says 78,000 refugees are now registered within its borders, up from 44,000 at the end of July, a sign of the growing exodus from Syria.
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