An additional 23,000 people have been registered as having fled Syria over the past week, the UN refugee agency said Friday. Numbers rose sharply, especially in Turkey, as Syrians were fleeing the embattled city of Aleppo, according to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva. In total, 170,000 refugees have been counted in neighbouring countries - 61,000 in Turkey, 47,000 each in Jordan and Lebanon, as well as 15,000 in Iraq, according to a report of DPA.
