PIX: Amid gloom of terror, Syrians flee their country

Syrian children shout at a refugee camp in the Turkish border town of Altinozu in Hatay province. Words on the forehead of the boy (L) read "Down with Bashar" and words on his chest read "Children of Heaven". A small banner (R) reads "Bashar, leave".

Syrian refugees shout slogans as they protest against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at a refugee camp in the Turkish border town of Yayladagi in Hatay province.

A Turkish woman talks to her relative, a Syrian refugee, through a fence at a refugee camp in the Turkish border town of Yayladagi in Hatay province.

A tray of food lies next to a wounded Syrian man on a hospital bed in Antakya city, Hatay province in Turkey, close to the Syrian border. Thousands have crossed the border from Syria to Turkey marking a sharp acceleration in numbers fleeing unrest in Syria.

A Syrian refugee woman gives her child a shower in the kitchen of an abandoned school in Wadi Khaled area, northern Lebanon. More than 3,800 displaced Syrian refugees have registered with the United Nations refugee agency in north Lebanon, which borders Syria's Homs province, a particularly bloody centre of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.

Syrian refugees chat as they spend time at a refugee camp in the Turkish border town of Yayladagi in Hatay province.

A Syrian refugee child sleeps at a mosque at the northern Lebanese border village of Boqaya, near the Lebanese-Syrian border. From the Lebanese village of Boqaya, Syrian soldiers could be seen across the border deploying along a stream in Arida village and entering homes. Lebanese soldiers also fanned out across their side of the frontier.

Rehab, who lives in the Lebanese border village of Debbabiyeh and whose brother died in Tel Kelakh, reacts in her home in northern Lebanon near the Lebanese-Syrian border, in May, 2011.

Bodies littered the streets of the Syrian town of Tel Kelakh after black-clad gunmen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad were despatched to crush dissent, refugees who fled into Lebanon said.

Syrian refugees eat at a mosque at the northern Lebanese border village of Boqaya, near the Lebanese-Syrian border.

Syrian children who fled Idlib in Syria are seen outside the refugees camp near the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern city of Yayladagi.

Syrian boys walk shoulder to shoulder in the rain at the Boynuyogun refugee camp on the Turkish-Syrian border in Hatay province. There are 1,750 Syrian refugees living in the camp which was set up by the Turkish Red Crescent.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry says there are currently some 10,000 Syrian refugees living in six different camps in Turkey.

Syrian refugee men perform the noon prayers at a makeshift mosque in the Boynuyogun refugee camp on the Turkish-Syrian border in Hatay province.

Syrian refugees, who fled the violence in Homs, sit around a stove during an interview with Reuters in a temporary home at Aarsal town in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa.

Syrian refugees, who fled the violence in Syria, are seen at a building hosting them temporarily, in the hillside town of Arsal in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

A Syrian resident attempts to cross back into the Syrian Hilat village carrying some food supplies from the northern Lebanese border area of Debbabiyeh, near the Lebanese-Syrian border.

A Syrian refugee lifts up his baby during a protest against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at a refugee camp in the Turkish border town of Yayladagi in Hatay province. 

Sawssan  Abdelwahab, who fled Idlib in Syria, walks with her children outside the refugees camp near the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern city of Yayladagi.