The humanitarian crisis in Syria is getting worse by the day.
About 2.1 million Syrians have fled the country and another five million Syrians are now refugees in their own country - meanwhile, the 31-month conflict grinds on as a military stalemate.
Al Jazeera created an interactive page that draws on U.S. Census data to illustrate, accounting for population density, how this type of human exodus would fit into various parts of
Here's New York:
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Within the country, a terrifying polio outbreak has occurred for the first time since 1999 and Josh Rogin of the Daily Beast reports that the UN is preparing for it to spread.
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Which should provide food for thought for the policymakers and thinkers in the nation's capital:
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