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Refugees forced to return to Syria face imprisonment, death at the hands of Assad

Written by Mark Ward, Lecturer, University of Washington

Aid from UNICEF being distributed to Syrian refugees at a flooded camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Jan. 10, 2019. AP/Bilal Hussein

I worked on the Syrian-Turkish border from 2012-16, leading the U.S. government team that was pushing hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian and other aid into northwest Syria. We were helping communities that...

Refugees forced to return to Syria face imprisonment, death at the hands of Assad

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