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Monday, August 14, 2017
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Monday, August 14, 2017
UN fears for thousands trapped on Syria-Jordan border
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUnited Nations agencies have expressed “deep concern” for the safety and security of nearly 50,000 Syrians stranded in the desert near their war-wracked country’s southern border with Jordan.
A statement issued yesterday in Amman said an estimated 4,000 people at Hadalat and 45,000 mostly women and children at Rukban were stuck on the frontier.
A suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group in June last year killed seven Jordanian soldiers in no-man’s land near the Rukban border crossing.
Soon afterwards, the army declared Jordan’s desert regions that stretch northeast to Syria and east to Iraq “closed military zones.”
Jordan is part of the US-led coalition fighting IS.
— AFP
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