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Three of Mo’een Al Ali’s daughters watch on as their parents explain the barriers preventing them from going to school. Photograph: Peter Biro/European Union 2018
Syrian refugees struggling to find their feet in Jordan

Three years have passed since the last time Mo’een Al Ali’s children stepped inside a school classroom. The local schools are full and the family cann(...)

Maran from Daraa in southern Syrian holds her newborn daughter Matin at the maternity hospital in the Zaatari refugee camp. Photograph: Peter Biro/European Union 2018
‘No woman has died here while having a baby and that is a big achievement’

Baby Matin is less than five hours old when we meet. Matin’s mother Maran gingerly lifts her baby, swaddled in bundles of soft blankets, from the cot (...)

File image of a test launch for an Israeli ballistic missile interceptor. File photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters
Israeli military claims it shot down a Syrian missile

The Israeli military said it shot down one of several anti-aircraft missiles launched on Friday at its air force as it was operating in Syria, in a ra(...)

Photo from 2005 shows the entrance of the Suaga (Suwaqa) prison, south of the capital Amman. Jordan hanged 15 death row prisoners including convicted “terrorists” at dawn on March 4th its information minister said, in a further break with a moratorium on executions it observed between 2006 and 2014. Photograph: Khalil Mazraawi/AFP/Getty Images
Jordan executes 15 people, 10 for terrorism convictions

Jordan executed 15 people on Saturday including 10 convicted on terrorism charges ranging from an attack a decade ago on Western tourists to the slay(...)

Syrian refugee children walk to school during rainy weather at Al Zaatari refugee camp in Jordanian city of Mafraq, near border with Syria. Photograph: Muhammad Hamed/Reuters
Amman letter: Jordan feels like a society that could fracture any day

“The future is dark, but in our architectural department, we’re already working on designs for rebuilding Syria some day,” says Raed (26), an architec(...)

Syrian refugee children at the souk in Al- Azraq camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan. Photograph: Jordan Pix/Getty Images
Refugees and Jordanians forced to compete for scarce resources

Before the conflict in Syria emptied hundreds of thousands of refugees into Jordan, the kingdom’s government had made projections of population growth(...)