Why Are So Many Asylum Seekers Making the Run for Europe Now?

Syria and the Middle East have been war-torn for the past four years, yet the European migrant crisis has only reached breaking point in recent months.

by Maha Yahya

published by

ABC News

on September 8, 2015

Source: ABC News

Syria and the Middle East have been war-torn for the past four years, yet the European migrant crisis has only reached breaking point in recent months.

Maha Yahya, a senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center, discusses why so many Syrians and others are choosing to make the leap into Europe now, after remaining in war-torn limbo for so long.

This interview was originally broadcast on ABC News.

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