History was made this week in the flat, yellowish, rocky desert about 60 miles (100km) east of Amman. The air shimmered and temperatures topped 30 degrees Celsius as diplomats, politicians, ...
Jordan's Azraq refugee camp is located in the desolate desert, two hours southeast of Amman. Without a tree in sight, everything in the camp is brown, coated by a desert dust so prevalent even the ...
AZRAQ, Jordan — Jordan opened a third refugee camp Wednesday in the middle of the desert for tens of thousands more Syrians fleeing the civil war, highlighting the staggering strains the refugees are ...
The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, switched on today the newly constructed solar plant in Jordan’s Azraq refugee camp. Funded by the IKEA Foundation’s Brighter Lives for Refugees campaign, the solar farm ...
CLARIFIES THAT FENCE IN PHOTO IS NOT THE SAME FENCE THAT SEPARATES VILLAGE 5 -- A man and two Syrian refugee children stand inside a fenced-off area of the Azraq camp for Syrian refugees, Monday, Jan.
AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan — About 8,500 Syrians are still locked up behind barbed wire in a no-go section of Jordan’s second-largest refugee camp — despite initial assurances in 2016 that the ...