Philippines Syria

September 12, 2012
Overseas Filipino Workers, who fled the civil war in Syria, wave Syrian and Philippine flags upon arriving at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport via a chartered flight by the International Organization for Migration on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, in Manila, Philippines. The nearly 300 workers, all of them young women who worked as babysitters and maids in Syria, said they were scared for their safety and sought shelter at the Philippine Embassy in Damascus until their repatriation Tuesday. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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