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UNHCR plans for 1.4 million refugees in 2015-6

 U.N. refugee agency UNHCR expects 1.4 million refugees to flee to Europe via the Mediterranean this year and next, it said in a revised appeal seen by Reuters Thursday, a sharp rise from initial estimates of 850,000. "UNHCR is planning for up to 700,000 people seeking safety and...

Syrian Kurdish militia says war could last 10 years

The commander of the YPG Syrian Kurdish militia said the country's civil war could continue for 10 years, in an interview published Thursday by monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Sipan Hemo, whose group has seized wide areas of territory from ISIS in northeast Syria this...