The United Nations gave its starkest warning yet today that it would soon run out of cash to cope with the vast influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan and other neighbouring countries. Marixie Mercado, spokeswoman for the U.N. Children's Fund UNICEF, told a U.N.

Almost 35,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from Jordan since their country's conflict broke out in March 2011, but a larger number joined the exodus last month alone, a government spokesman said on Friday. "34,824 Syrian refugees have gone back to their country since the start of the crisis," Anmar al-Hammud, spokesman for the refugee file, told AFP. He said around 2,500 of them had returned at their own request from the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan on Thursday with the assistance of Jordanian security services.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations refugee agency said on Thursday it was very worried by reports of mass deportations of Syrians from Turkey and said it had taken up the issue with Turkish authorities. Turkish officials said that Turkey sent hundreds of refugees back to Syria after clashes with military police at their camp near the border in a protest over living conditions, although a government official later denied this and said that 50-60 Syrians had returned voluntarily.

By Kadir Celikcan AKCAKALE, Turkey (Reuters) - Syrian refugees threw rocks at Turkish military police who fired teargas and water cannon on Wednesday, the latest unrest in camps struggling to cope with a flood of people fleeing a civil war. Reuters TV filmed the scenes at the Suleiman Shah refugee camp, near the Turkish town of Akcakale on the Syrian border, as dozens of protesters threw stones and smashed the windows of a fire truck.