ANKARA – The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has reached “almost one million,” Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, while pledging to keep accepting those fleeing the war. “Are we supposed to ask our brothers not to come, and to die in Syria?” Erdogan said as he addressed his party's lawmakers in parliament. The three-year conflict in Syria has sent millions fleeing to neighboring countries and beyond. Turkey, a staunch opponent of the regime in Damascus, is one of the countries that has born the brunt of the refugee crisis, along with Lebanon and Jordan. The United Nations said earlier this month that more than a million people Syrians had officially registered as refugees in Lebanon, and that numbers were swelling by the day. Meanwhile, a Lebanese army official said the military is delivering aid to an isolated village along Syria's border that was bombed by President Bashar Al-Assad's forces. The Lebanese village of Tfail lies on a promontory surrounded on three sides by Syrian territory. Lebanese media said Syrian government forces bombed Tfail last week. It wasn't clear if there were casualties among the 3,000 Lebanese residents and 5,000 Syrian refugees in Tfail. The army official says the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant Hezbollah group was occasionally blocking the only access road to Tfail, severing it from the rest of Lebanon. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to media. He says the convoy with food parcels and gasoline negotiated its passage to Tfail with Hezbollah officials and clerics on Tuesday. – AP