Human Rights Watch - Syria, New treaty on domestic workers, G20, Azerbaijan, Kenya, Tunisia, Libya and Israel

A sea of UNHCR tents awaits newly arrived Syrian refugees at a transit center in Iraq

Two million refugees have fled Syria

President Obama, seeking Congressional support for military intervention, is holding closed door meetings with Senate and House leadership; groundbreaking global treaty on the domestic workers' rights; Russia and the G20 summit; Israel; Kenya.

The United Nations refugee agency announced that the number of Syrians who have fled the country has surpassed 2 million people. "Syria has become the great tragedy of this century – a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history," said António Guterres, the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees.