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Turkey halts work of US aid group helping Syrians

U.S. aid group Mercy Corps said Tuesday that the Turkish government had revoked its permit, halting its work in the country helping Syrians. "Our hearts are broken by this turn of events, which comes after five years of cooperation with the government of Turkey and other local partners,"...

Lebanon’s southern town shuts shops run by Syrian refugees

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Many towns in southern Lebanon have started issuing orders to close shops and workshops managed and owned by Syrians, according to sources. The town council of al-Bisariyah in the countryside of Saida city in southern Lebanon had on March 4, announced closing all shops owned or...

Trapped Syrians tell of misery in no man's land

A Jordanian army ambulance pulled up at a makeshift clinic a few hundred meters from a desert border camp where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are trapped in no man's land. A paramedic clambered out, carrying an emaciated boy around two years old. "Whose child is this?" he shouted...

Trapped Syrians tell of misery in no man's land

A Jordanian army ambulance pulled up at a makeshift clinic a few hundred metres from a desert border camp where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are trapped in no man's land. A paramedic clambered out, carrying an emaciated boy around two years old. "Whose child is this?" he shouted...