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May 17,2020

Clinics close in al-Rukban as camp braces for Coronavirus

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Al-Rukban camp faces challenges after decline in assistance and services

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Rare humanitarian convoy set to reach Rukban next week, says UN, amid ‘hardest winter yet’ for desert camp

January 31

A SARC handout photo shows Rukban residents receiving aid on November 5, 2018. Stringer/AFP/SANA. AMMAN: Bitterly cold rain turns the dusty street to mud as men run for shelter i...

Storm Norma: Inclement weather sweeping Lebanon reveals myriad vulnerabilities of refugees in Arsal, Beqaa Valley

January 09

Snow falls on tent canvuses near northeastern Lebanon's Arsal on January 8. Photo courtesy of Ahmad al-Quseir. AMMAN: Up one of the steep hillsides that line Lebanon’s Beqa...

US allies in Syria left stunned by shock announcement of military withdrawal

December 20

US forces near Manbij in 2017. Delil Souleiman/AFP. AMMAN: US-backed factions and displaced Syrians in eastern Syria expressed “surprise” on Thursday over a shock dec...

Without proper civil status procedures, a generation of Syrians ‘at risk of statelessness’ in Rukban no-man’s land

December 18

Rukban in December. Video courtesy of the Rukban Civil Administration. AMMAN: Samer’s daughter Farah was born two years ago. She was healthy, her birth normal—d...

In Jordan’s capital, Syrian refugees mull a complicated return home across recently reopened border

November 05

A shopping street in Amman on October 24. Photo by Madeline Edwards. AMMAN: Just one grey-haired customer sits silently inside 35-year-old Marwan’s barbershop.* Outside, i...

After repeat delays, long-awaited aid convoy reaches Rukban camp amid critical food, medicine shortages

November 04

SARC personnel near trucks carrying humanitarian aid to Rukban camp. Photo courtesy of SARC. AMMAN: UN and Syrian Arab Red Crescent aid workers began distributing humanitarian ai...

Stranded in Syrian desert, Rukban's displaced wait on stalled UN aid delivery

October 30

A sandstorm hits Rukban camp in October. Photo courtesy of Rukban Civil Council. AMMAN: Tens of thousands of civilians stranded in the desolate Rukban camp in the deserts of...

Ongoing closure of Rukban smuggling route leaves thousands of displaced Syrians fearing ‘siege’-like conditions

October 14

Displaced Syrians protest conditions in Rukban on October 10. Photo by Omar a-Shawi. AMMAN: A vital smuggling route that once allowed truckloads of food and medical supplies to e...

Despite revival in smuggling, Rukban’s markets go quiet

October 08

A shop in Rukban on Thursday. Photo by Omar a-Shawi for Syria Direct. AMMAN: The rows of canvas-ceilinged mud stalls that make up the Rukban settlement’s central market wer...

‘Those who must go, must go’: As the years drag on in Rukban camp, pregnant women face strapped medical services or a risky return home

October 04

Rukban women enter UN-run clinic in Jordan in March 2017. Photo by Khalil Mazraawi/AFP. AMMAN: Bishayr is terrified of giving birth. Originally from rural Homs, the 19-...

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Photo essay: Displaced Syrians in Rukban camp build an education system from scratch

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Hundreds of residents return to regime-controlled Homs city months after leaving in rebel surrender agreement

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