Photos of the week：Refugee crisis in Syria

Syrian refugee Mahal carries her daughter Khouloud, aged 1 year and 3 months, back to their tent in the Rajab Informal Tented Settlement in the Bekaa, Lebanon (貝卡省, 黎巴嫩).

Idlib is one of many cities in Syria which have fallen into ruin after being bombarded in the battles.

A child in a refugees' shelter with a blank look.

Syrian residents flee violence in Aleppo's (阿勒頗的) eastern al-Salihin neighbourhood after regime troops retake the area from rebel fighters.

Bana Alabed is known as the "Aleppo's tweeting girl". The seven-year-old Syrian girl came to international attention with her posts on Twitter, which give a tragic account of the war in Aleppo.

【明報專訊】The Syrian Civil War (敘利亞內戰) has created the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. The war has killed hundreds of thousands of people and forced more than 11 million from their homes. In many cases, children caught up in this crisis have lost their parents, suffered physical and psychological trauma, or fallen years behind in school.

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR, 聯合國難民署), 4.8 million Syrian refugees have fled to Turkey, Lebanon (黎巴嫩), Jordan (約旦), Egypt and Iraq, and 6.6 million are internally displaced within Syria. Meanwhile, about one million have requested asylum (庇護) to Europe.