THE number of Syrian refugees registered in neighbouring countries has nearly doubled since the beginning of September to more than 440,000, the UN refugee agency says.
"Across the region ... the number of Syrian refugees in surrounding countries now stands at 442,256, an increase of more than 213,000 since the beginning of September," UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards told reporters in Geneva.
The figure does not include the hundreds of thousands more who did not come forward for registration.
The agency said it counted 127,420 Syrian refugees registered in Lebanon, 125,670 in Jordan, 123,747 in Turkey, 55,685 in Iraq and 9734 in North African countries.
In Iraq, the number of registered Syrian refugees had tripled since September 1 when only 18,700 were registered there, the agency said in a statement.
Three quarters of all Syrian refugees in Iraq were in the Kurdistan region, and nearly half were in camps.
The Domiz camp in the north of the Kurdistan region was housing around 18,500 people, and had for the past two months received around 500-600 new arrivals per day, it said.
In Jordan, meanwhile, "nearly 4500 desperate and exhausted Syrian refugees have crossed the border over the past eight days, most of them women and children," the UNHCR said.
The UN estimates around 2.5 million Syrians are in need of emergency aid inside the wartorn country.
More than 40,000 people have been killed across Syria since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's regime began in March 2011, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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