Democratic and Republican US senators called on Tuesday for the country to take in more of the millions of people forced from their homes during Syria's nearly three-year civil war.
Only 31 Syrian refugees - out of an estimated 2.3 million - were allowed into the United States in the fiscal year that ended in October.
At a Senate hearing a week before an international donors conference in Kuwait, US officials and senators discussed the crisis in Syria, and the burden of housing hundreds of thousands of refugees for neighboring countries such as Jordan and Lebanon....