(CNN) -- The Syrian cab driver tolerated beatings, arrests and daily indignities during the country's 16 months of turmoil. But after a rocket struck his house in the Daraa province city of Herak last week, the man and his family finally had enough. The 29-year-old Sunni man, his wife, two young daughters and other relations left their homes on July 16 and embarked on a journey at night to the nearby Jordanian border. He was among the more than 120,000 people who've fled to the neighboring countries -- Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan -- to escape the warring in Syria.
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Children's safety is a top factor in deciding to leave the country
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Iraq's PM asks Iraqi refugees in Syria to return home
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