Rukban
Sign in to saveRukban () is an arid remote area in northeast Jordan adjacent to the Jordan–Syria border, and close to the tripoint with Iraq.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- الركبان
- Country
- Syria
- Population
- 50000
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- native label
- الركبان
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Background
- Syrian Civil War spillover
- 21 June 2016 car bomb
- 17 December 2016 car bomb
- 3 May 2017 car bomb
- Tower 22 drone attack
- See also
- References
Rukban () is an arid remote area in northeast Jordan adjacent to the Jordan–Syria border, and close to the tripoint with Iraq.
The area became in 2014 one of the crossing points for Syrian refugees fleeing the Syrian Civil War. While Jordan welcomed hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria, the country specifically blocked the refugees at Rukban from entering, citing security concerns regarding the presence of hidden ISIS sleeper cells. This led to thousands of refugees piling up on the Syrian side of the border, creating the Rukban refugee camp.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rukban” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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