UNHCR Video Shows Syrians' Life at Iraqi Border

At least 100 Syrians flee to northern Iraq every day, according to UNHCR footage released on March 18. The video, titled Iraq: Heartbreak at the Border, shows Syrians arriving, leaving, and visiting one another at a border crossing into Iraqi Kurdistan.

At 1:00, the video shows a refugee being visited by his sister, who lives in Aleppo. He says, “Every time I say goodbye to her, I am expecting she will not come back.”

The UNHCR issued a statement on March 12 saying that Syrians who are displaced internally or who have fled to neighbouring countries “are caught in deteriorating conditions, facing an even bleaker future without more international support.” Credit: Edith Champagne