More than 340,000 people have fled to Europe over the past year to escape war or persecution in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. The IRC is responding to the continent's worst displacement crisis since World War 2 by aiding exhausted refugees who have come ashore on the Greek island of Lesbos.
More than 340,000 people have fled to Europe over the past year to escape conflict or persecution in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Most have fled the brutal civil war in Syria, now in its fifth year.