The UN estimates that more than 4 million Syrians have fled the country’s civil conflict so far, with 3.8 million
Gulf States are under fire from human rights groups for not doing more for Syrian refugees as Syria’s neighbors struggle to house those fleeing across their borders and the EU grapples with its worst refugee crisis since World War II.
The UN estimates that more than 4 million Syrians have fled the country’s civil conflict so far, with 3.8 million of these having temporarily sought refuge in just five countries: Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt.
While Syria’s neighbors struggle to accommodate the influx, an Amnesty International report from December noted that the six Gulf states — Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar — “have offered zero resettlement places to Syrian refugees”.
