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

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