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President Putin's pouring of troops and weaponry into Syria ia akin to "the arsonist playing the fireman", The Daily Telegraph's Charles Krauthammer says, external. 

"What's driving the refugees is the war and what's driving the war is Iran and Russia. They provide the materiel, the funds and now, increasingly, the troops that fuel the fighting." he comments.

"After all, most of the refugees are not fleeing the Islamic State. Its depravity is more ostentatious, but it is mostly visited upon minorities, Christian and Yazidi - and they have already been largely ethnically cleansed from Islamic State territory.

"The European detention camps are overflowing with Syrians fleeing President Assad's barbarism, especially his attacks on civilians, using artillery, chlorine gas and nail-filled barrel bombs."

Chris Morris, BBC Europe Correspondent, says there are "no simple solutions" to the current crisis. But he says criticism of the EU's "incoherent response to the refugee crisis is mounting - and Europe's leaders know it".

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has called for a binding agreement to share out migrants between EU countries to stop what he described as "asylum shopping", AFP reports.

"Europe must reach consensus over compulsory distribution," Mr Rutte said at his weekly press briefing after meeting the Dutch cabinet. 

 A "limited number of countries" were failing to back the plan to take in migrants but had to face up to their responsibilities, he said. 

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The Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic has cut short his participation in an emergency meeting because he received a telephone call from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to the Croatian newspaper Jutarnji List. He told reporters the meeting had gone well and that members had been given informed about the government's handling of the crisis.

The Pope has given a new home inside the Vatican to a Christian family from Damascus in Syria, one of thousands seeking asylum in Europe from the war in their country, the BBC's David Willey reports from Rome. 

Pope Francis is practising what he preaches, our correspondent says, because earlier this month he called upon parishes, religious communities, monasteries and convents all over Europe each to receive a refugee family. 

The Vatican normally houses only clerics working in the headquarters administration of the Catholic church. It has a resident population of fewer than a 1,000 people. 

The Syrian refugee family - the first of two expected to be given new homes inside the Vatican - arrived in Italy earlier this month. 

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The Islamic State group has released a video urging residents of Iraq and Syria not to leave and to stay under the group's control. 

However, many of those who've left Iraq and Syria say the rise of IS is the primary reason for their departure.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is busy shoring up domestic support for her position on the migrant crisis, The Economist reports. 

"She became a heroine of sorts to refugees and many citizens on 4 September when she allowed trains to carry stranded refugees from Hungary through Austria into Germany," it says. 

"Germans bearing flowers and sweets turned out to welcome them. But Mrs Merkel, who is usually more cautious, had acted without bringing along some of her closest political partners. 

"The conservative Christian Social Union governs the state of Bavaria, which borders Austria, and was outraged by Mrs Merkel’s welcoming stance, calling it a “grave mistake”. Other regional and municipal governments joined in the criticism. 

"So did some EU countries, accusing Mrs Merkel of encouraging even more refugees to come.

"Germany’s welcome mat could fray as the crisis grows."

Croatia is encouraging "masses of people to commit [the] criminal offence" of illegally crossing borders - Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto is quoted by Reuters as saying.

However, at the same time there have been several reports of buses from the Hungarian side taking people across the border. The picture is highly confusing.

Switzerland has said that it will take in 1,500 refugees and migrants over the next two years while strengthening support for Syrian peace talks, the AFP news agency has reported. It says that officials in Bern see this as a  "priority" for resolving Europe's humanitarian crisis.