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Topic: Syrian refugees

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January 17, 2013
2:34 pm

Syrian refugees walk through water and mud in the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013. (photo credit:AP /Mohammad Hanno

Jordan ready to close border to Syrian refugees

Fearing additional ‘surge’ of entrants, Hashemite kingdom vows to secure a ‘safe haven’ inside Syria

January 17, 2013
3:09 am

Family of Syrian refugees wiped out in Jordan fire

Seven killed in camp after kerosene heater flips over; wintry conditions plaguing fleeing Syrians

January 9, 2013
2:16 pm

Israel’s neighbors get fair share of wild winter storm

From Syrian refugees in Jordan to ships plying the Suez Canal in Egypt, downpour ravages the region

By Jamal Halaby

January 9, 2013
3:11 am

A Wounded Syrian refugee makes his way over water and mud at the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan, on Tuesday (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

Storm hits displaced Syrians, turning Jordanian camp into freezing swamp

Frustrated refugees attack aid workers with sticks and stones

January 8, 2013
1:28 pm

Syrian refugees at Zaatari Refugee Camp in Mafraq, Jordan, in early September (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

Syrian asylum seekers riot in Jordan

Seven aid workers injured as dozens of refugees protest over winter conditions

By Dale Gavlak

December 30, 2012
8:58 pm

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (screen capture: YouTube/PBSNewsHour)

Turkey’s Erdogan tells refugees Syrian rebirth near

From the web Reuters: Prime minister says ‘cruel Assad’ has martyred nearly 50,000, adds that victory comes to those who are patient

December 30, 2012
1:09 pm

Jordan says it can handle Syrian chemical threat

US and British military experts have trained Jordanians on protecting civilians in the case of attack

December 29, 2012
6:10 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and UN envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi talk during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, Dec. 29 (photo credit: AP/Ivan Sekretarev)

UN envoy warns Syrian collapse threatens region, says conflict is becoming ‘more and more sectarian’

Russia’s Lavrov says the price of the opposition’s demand for Assad’s resignation will be the loss of more Syrian lives

By Vladimir Isachenikov

December 24, 2012
9:08 pm

Syrian refugees who fled the violence in their hometowns line up to fill plastic containers with water at a displaced persons camp near the Turkish border last month (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

Syrian refugees flee to Turkey after bakery attack

At least 700 civilians reach border town after scores killed in airstrike near Hama

December 7, 2012
4:34 pm

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks to reporters during a visit to Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, in Mafraq, Jordan, near the Syrian border, on Friday December 7. (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

Ban urges Syria against using chemical weapons

UN secretary-general calls for more aid to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees in Syria and Jordan

By AP and Ilan Ben Zion

November 28, 2012
8:24 pm

In this 2012 file photo, a land mine expert works in mined land in the Karkemish archaeological site at the Turkey-Syria border in Gaziantep province, Turkey (photo credit: AP Photo/File)

Syrian war clouds Turkish plan to clear 600,000 land mines

Ankara seeded Syria border area in an effort to prevent smuggling in the 1950s, and again in the 1980s during the war with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party

By Christopher Torchia

November 13, 2012
9:13 am

An IDF tank in a firing position on the Golan Heights last year (AP/Ariel Schalit)

How Syria’s neighbors are drawn into its war

Refugees, stray mortar fire, car-bombings and sectarian violence are all fallout from the bitter struggle between the Damascus regime and rebel forces

November 12, 2012
12:01 pm

A rebel fighter fires a gun at an army jet flying a bombing run on nearby rebel positions in the district of Aleppo Jedida, Syria, on Monday, October 29, 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

Syrian jet bombs area near Turkish border

China repeats call for conflicting parties to negotiate

November 9, 2012
7:48 pm

A Syrian child lies in a safety seat while his family takes refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing, in hopes of entering one of the refugee camps in Turkey. (file photo credit: AP/Muhammed Muheisen)

Over 11,000 flee Syria to neighboring countries in one day

Flood of refugees desperate to escape heavy fighting in northern provinces; escalation brings number of registered refugees up to 408,000; Assad has ‘no regrets’

By Bassem Mroue

November 9, 2012
12:18 pm

A Turkish military station at the border with Syria (photo credit: AP)

Two Syrian generals defect to Turkey

Group of 71 people, including 11 colonels and families of the defectors, taken to refugee camp

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