IN PICTURES: Chaos as thousands flee government offensive in Aleppo
Published date: 6 February 2016 12:19 GMT
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Last update: 8 years 9 months ago
Refugees wait for Turkish aid workers to distribute tents near the border crossing with Turkey (AFP)
A family flees northwards towards Turkey on a motorcycle (AFP)
Turkish media say over 100,000 people are heading for the border amid a renewed government offensive around Aleppo (AFP)
Thousands of people have been stuck at the Turkish-Syrian border since Ankara closed the frontier earlier this week (AFP)
A Syrian boy who has been separated from his parents at the border cries as he searches for them (AFP)
The renewed government offensive, backed up by Russian air strikes, was blamed for scuppering planned peace talks in Geneva (AFP)
Turkey, which already hosts over 2 million Syrian refugees, has been warned that it must keep its borders open (AFP)
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