The UK is to take hundreds more vulnerable refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.
But the Conservative leader said that the international community would not "resolve this crisis unless we do more to ...tackle the root of the problem".
A government source said that the move was a response to the "ongoing situation" in Syria.
Last year the UK Government announced that it would accept up to 500 refugees from Syria over three years.
It is understood that 187 have come to the UK to date.
The increase will be "modest", sources said, with a couple of hundred more accepted by 2017.
It is thought the final total total be between 500 and 1,000 refugees.
There are more than seven million displaced people in Syria, a No 10 source said.
Earlier this week the UN's High Commissioner on refugees called on other countries to open their borders and follow Turkey's example in hosting Syrian refugees.
Turkey has taken in 1.8 million refugees fleeing the conflict since it began in 2011.
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