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Europe Beckons to Desperate Syrians

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Thousands of Middle-Class Syrians Are Trying to Get to Europe's Northern Countries to Seek Asylum

Fares Ayyub, here in a park in Sofia, Bulgaria, fled his home in Deraa, Syria, after his mother and brother were killed by an airstrike on his house by government forces. He dodged soldiers and militia in Syria and traveled through Turkey to Bulgaria, where he has been stuck for three months.

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Politics & power in Jordan’s refugee camp

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A year and a half after it was first established, the dynamics of Jordan's Za'atari Syrian refugee camp are changing with time. A city in the making? IRIN news, a humanitarian news and analysis portal, borrows the insight of anthropologist professors to explain the transformation of the second largest refugee camp in the world.

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