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Overseas Filipino Workers, who fled the civil war in Syria, wave Syrian and Philippine flags upon arriving at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila via a chartered flight by the International Organization for Migration on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 (Photo credit: AP/Bullit Marquez)

Filipinos flee war in Syria with tales of horror

263 workers returned home after Philippine foreign secretary travels to Damascus to facilitate their evacuation

By Oliver Teves