In pictures: Wildfires engulf Syria’s coast for the second time this summer
Wildfires engulf Syria’s coasts for the second time this summer displacing as many as 25,000 people from affected areas.
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10, 2020
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09, 2020
Sorrow in the city, joy in the desert: A marriage in al-Rukban camp
Despite of all the challenges, love flourishes in the no-man's land of al-Rukban.
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05, 2020
Unable to control territory, IS still ‘has the upper hand in the Syrian Badiya’
IS has taken advantage of the Syrian Badia's terrain to conduct an effective guerilla warfare campaign.
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03, 2020
Clinics close in al-Rukban as camp braces for Coronavirus
The 12,700 Syrians who reside in the al-Rukban internally displaced people’s camp find themselves totally unprepared to confront the virus.
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02, 2020
Reconstructing the nation, one dome at a time
As sites like the Armenian Bethel Church and the Great Mosque of Aleppo undergo renovations in formerly rebel-held territories, narratives of the Syrian government’s victory are reinforced.
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10, 2019
Al-Rukban camp faces challenges after decline in assistance and services
Samir al-Homsi’s single-room mud house is thirty meters apart from his nearest neighbor in al-Rukban camp for displaced Syrians. “Most of the neighbors have left,” al-Homsi told Syria Direct, making “the neighborhood a depressing place.”
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08, 2019
With new tactics and targets, ISIS demonstrates resilience in Syria (interactive map)
AMMAN - Since the “caliphate” that the self-proclaimed ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS) declared over wide swathes of Syria and Iraq in July 2014 was officially eliminated, the terrorist group’s remaining presence in Syria has been shrouded in controversy.
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06, 2019
No flour left in al-Rukban: Around 70% of the camp’s residents have forcibly left
Amman- Al-Rukban camp has been without flour for three days, a consequence of Damascus’s tightening siege on it, leaving the 12,000 residents who remain there to rely on smugglers for food.
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05, 2019
Residents of Rukban face their “most difficult choice” as caravans depart camp
Amman- A 26 year-old man stands in front of his house, built out of mud, and watches what has become a regular sight: a crowded convoy of trucks preparing to depart from the Rukban refugee camp. The trucks are filled to the brim with furniture, odds-and-ends, and of course, people.
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04, 2019
Thousands leave Rukban camp in largest convoy to date as Russian, Syrian pressure mounts
Monday saw the latest convoy to leave Rukban camp, an isolated informal camp settlement of mud homes housing up to 40,000 displaced Syrians on the Syrian-Jordanian border.