Early marriage, teenage pregnancy common in Zaatari camp Rates of child marriage much higher among Syrian refugees More girls are challenging social pressure to marry MAFRAQ, Jordan, Nov 9 (Thomson ...

No one is born a refugee, no one is born a war victim, no one wants to live as either of those things. Last week, I met with Syrian refugees in both the camps and the towns and cities of Jordan to ...

RUWAISHED, Jordan, Dec 11 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency's Goodwill Ambassador, Angelina Jolie, has exhorted the Jordanian government to continue its long-standing generosity towards refugees during ...

Brian Tomaszewski hopes to make riots, fires and sand storms a little easier to manage at the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp in Jordan. The assistant professor of information sciences and technologies at ...

AMMAN, Jordan — United Nations relief workers have begun setting up makeshift camps near Jordan’s eastern border to accommodate refugees expected to cross over from Iraq if the U.S. leads a war ...

AMMAN, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The U.N. refugee agency is stepping up efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 among tens of thousands of Syrians in camps in Jordan after the first cases were confirmed last ...

ZA'ATRI, REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan, July 29 (UNHCR) – Exactly one year ago, a 53-year-old Syrian refugee called Issak* emerged from the darkness and crossed Syria's border with Jordan. He was followed by ...

For many it has been a difficult decision to leave life in refugee camps and return to the unknown, a country badly scarred by war.

Now that spring has arrived in the Middle East, Syria’s estimated 1.2 million refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan can hope for relief from the snow, the rain and the bitterly cold nights of winter.

Rebels in the Free Syrian Army are recruiting fighters from inside a refugee camp in Jordan, in violation of a ban on rebel activities tin the camp from both the United Nations and Jordanian ...