About 1 million of the refugees, as we've previously reported, are children.
An additional 4.25 million people, the agency says, have been forced to abandon their homes but are still inside Syria.
"Taken together, these numbers — amounting to more than 6 million people — mean that more Syrians are now forcibly displaced than people from any other country," the UNHCR adds. More are "on the way," the agency warns
According to the CIA World Factbook, Syria's population stood at 22.5 million as of July 2013. So, slightly more than one-quarter of all Syrians have been driven from their homes by the fighting — so far.
The U.N. believes an additional 100,000 Syrians, most of them civilians, have been killed since protests against the regime of President Bashar Assad began in March 2011 and civil war followed.
The new U.N. report comes as U.S. lawmakers start returning to Washington, D.C., for the debate about whether to take military action against the Assad regime because of its alleged use of chemical weapons last month. On Saturday, President Obama said that while he believes he has the authority to strike Syria, he would seek congressional authorization.
Take this little girl by the hand, take her to Walmart, and watch the expression on her face as she walks through the vast aisles in the gigantic store. Some years ago, I was in the position to welcome an exchange student from South America. She was from an affluent wealthy family, but there was not a McDonalds near her. I took her for her first "Big Mac" which she had heard so much about. I was in awe of her, just watching her eat her first "Big Mac." I was at our local Walmart this morning, around 8, very few people. Practically anything I might need was there, and reasonably priced, and in abundance, and with many multiple choices ..... how lucky are we?
