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Yehia, left, the millionth Syrian refugee in Lebanon, arrives to register at a UNHCR registration center, after fleeing from Yabrud, in the northern port city of Tripoli on April 3, 2014. (AFP Photo/Joseph Eid)
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A new Syrian refugee family shops in a market after receiving their humanitarian aid shopping vouchers at the new Azraq Syrian refugee camp near Al-Azraq, east of Amman, on April 30, 2014. (Reuters/Muhammad Hamed)
Jordan’s Sixth Refugee Camp
Azraq, Asharq Al-Awsat—“I’m comfortable now; no one bothers us here and I don’t hear the guns and missiles anymore,” said 11-year-old Abdul-Karim. He spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat on his first day at the new Jordanian Azraq camp for Syrian refugees to which he fled with...Caption:
Syrian refugee boys stroll at a refugee camp in Nizip in Gaziantep province, near the Turkish-Syrian border March 17, 2014. Aleppo continues to bear the brunt of the civil war, in which about 140,000 people have died. Almost two years after rebels grabbed half of the city, they are now on the defensive, with government […]
Opinion: Assassinating the Future
Regardless of how we characterize the armed conflict that has been taking place in Syria for more than three years between the opposition and the regime, its symptoms are not too dissimilar to the nature of any civil war. A civil war represents the most severe case of...Caption:
Syrian women stand in line to receive their families’ share of winter aid kits at Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan last winter. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)
UNHCR: Syrian refugees to hit 4 million mark in 2014
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—As the Syrian refugee crisis continues to deteriorate, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) regional representative to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Imran Riza affirmed that the UN estimates there will be more than 4 million...Caption:
Jordanian border soldiers stand as the Jordanian national flag waving above them and the rainbow can be seen in the background, prior to the arrival of the Syrian refugees who will be crossing into Ruweishid, Jordan, on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. (AP/Mohammad Hannon)