The number of Syrian refugees registered by the United Nations in the Middle East and North Africa has passed half a million, the UN refugee body has said.
But many more have not come forward to seek help, making the number of people fleeing the 20-month-old Syrian conflict even higher, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
"According to UNHCR's latest figures for Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey and North Africa, 509,559 Syrians are either already registered or in the process of being registered," the agency said in a statement issued in Geneva.
In November, the numbers were rising by 3,200 per day, and close to 1,000 Syrians crossed into Jordan in the past two nights alone, it said.
"They arrived in very bad weather, their clothing soaked, shoes covered in mud," UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told reporters, adding they were "fearful, freezing and without proper winter clothing".
Some 3,200 refugees have been crossing into neighbouring countries each day As fighting rages, an activist group said rebels had taken full control of a sprawling military base near the northern city of Aleppo.
The rebels killed 35 troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al Assad in the offensive, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
More 40,000 people have been killed since the violence started in March 2011.
Diplomatic efforts to end Mr Assad's embattled regime are intensifying.
Rebels have claimed the Sheikh Suleiman base northwest of Aleppo The United States has designated a militant rebel group with links to al Qaeda - Jabhat al-Nusra, or "the Support Front" in Arabic - a foreign terrorist organisation.
The move, which freezes any assets its members may have in US jurisdictions and bars Americans from providing the group with material support, is largely symbolic.
But US officials hope the penalties will prompt others to take similar action and discourage Syrians from joining.
Washington is also preparing to recognise the newly-formed Syrian Opposition Council as the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people.
The decision is expected to be announced at an international conference on the crisis in Morocco on Wednesday, and is likely to be accompanied by pledges of additional humanitarian and non-lethal logistical support for the opposition.
Britain, France and several Arab countries have already recognised the group.
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