The United States will increase the
number of refugees it takes in by 15,000 over each of the next two
years, bringing the total to 100,000 in 2017, John Kerry, the US
secretary of state, has said.
The
US will accept 85,000 refugees from around the world next year, up from
70,000, Kerry said at a news conference on Sunday with Frank-Walter
Steinmeier, the German foreign minister, after they discussed the mass
migration of Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war.
Many, though not all, of the additional
refugees would be Syrian, American officials have said. Others would
come from strife-torn areas of Africa.