• Syrian Kurdish refugees sit outside a tent Tuesday at a refugee camp in Suruc in Turkey's Sanliurfa province. The U.N. says more than 13 million people displaced by the wars in Iraq and Syria are facing a harsh winter. | AFP-JIJI
    Syrian Kurdish refugees sit outside a tent Tuesday at a refugee camp in Suruc in Turkey's Sanliurfa province. The U.N. says more than 13 million people displaced by the wars in Iraq and Syria are facing a harsh winter. | AFP-JIJI

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GENEVA – About 13.6 million people, equivalent to the population of London, have been displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq, and many are without food or shelter as winter starts, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday.

Amin Awad, UNHCR’s director for the Middle East and North Africa, said the world was becoming numb to the refugees’ needs.

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