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Source: UNHCR UNHCR closes the Al Tanf camp between the borders of Syria and Iraqi and relocates the last of the Palestinian refugees who lived there for years.

Source: UNHCR Having tried once before, an Iraqi refugee family faced with having to leave Syria vows never to return to their homeland.

Date: 17 Dec 2009
Source: IFRC

Source: UNICEF AL-TANF CAMP, Syrian Arab Republic, 2 October 2009 – In al-Tanf, a refugee camp set up in the no-man's-land near the Syrian-Iraqi border, Palestinian children who have fled the conflict in Iraq participate in various activities designed to help them heal their psycho-social wounds.

DAMASCUS Thursday, May 28, 2009 (IRIN) - In a sign of growing frustration at being able neither to return home nor resettled in a third country, over 100 Iraqi refugees demonstrated outside the office of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Damascus this week.

HASSAKE Monday, May 11, 2009 (IRIN) - Extra food distributions by NGOs have begun to Iraqi families struggling to meet basic needs in Syria’s drought-hit rural northeast. IRIN went to see the distributions taking place.

DAMASCUS Sunday, February 22, 2009 (IRIN) - Two years of drought has left many farmers and herders without an income and has severely limited cereal production in Syria, pushing up local food prices and putting pressure on basic food supplies, according to UN and Syrian government officials.

DAMASCUS Monday, February 02, 2009 (IRIN) - A shelter for people trafficking victims has just opened in an undisclosed location in Damascus. It is the first of its kind in Syria, which has only recently recognised human trafficking as a problem but still has no specific laws against it.

Source: Reuters GENEVA, Oct 24 (Reuters) - More than half of the Christians living in Mosul have fled the northern Iraqi city in the past two weeks, some going to Syria, after receiving death threats, the United ...

Source: IRIN Several hundred Iraqis returned home from Syria this week and last, but thousands more continue to register with the UN in Damascus to receive vital food aid, underscoring the hardship faced by the huge refugee community.

Source: UNHCR A group of Palestinian children find it difficult to enjoy a seaside holiday in Syria knowing they must return to their refugee camp on the Iraq-Syria border.

A group of Palestinian children find it difficult to enjoy a seaside holiday in Syria knowing they must return to their refugee camp on the Iraq-Syria border.