Countries like Jordan and Turkey have housed an incredible number of these refugees in certainly less than ideal conditions, but they would rather be there than back amidst the hideous violence in their homeland.
It is about time some solutions were found for a situation, now with ISIS added, is only going to get worse.
Syrian war: Western countries to accept more refugees
The UN says that may Syrian refugees suffer from ill health and from the trauma of war
Western countries have promised to increase the number of Syrian refugees they will accept for resettlement to up to 100,000 over the next few months, the UN refugee agency has said.
The UNHCR made the announcement at a meeting of member states in Geneva.
The 100,000 figure is still well short of what the UN and aid agencies wanted.
Most refugees - around three-million - are in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. Up until now only about 62,000 have been allowed into Western countries.
The commitment by them to accept more came at the end of a pledging conference in Geneva, during which aid organisations such as Oxfam and Save the Children urged wealthy countries to accept at least 5%, or 180,000, of the most vulnerable refugees from Syria.
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