LATEST FROM Homs
February 18
Qassem has a lot on his mind lately.The father of two is among some 40,000 displaced Syrians residing in the remote Rukban displacement camp along Syria’s border with Jordan.
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February 06
SARC aid trucks arrive at Rukban on Wednesday. Syrian Arab Red Crescent/AFP.
AMMAN: Over 100 trucks carrying humanitarian aid arrived to a distribution center at the remote...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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