AZRAQ — The government and the UN on Wednesday officially opened a new camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan that they see has the potential to become one of the world’s largest refugee camps. The Azraq ...

The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, switched on today the newly constructed solar plant in Jordan’s Azraq refugee camp. Funded by the IKEA Foundation’s Brighter Lives for Refugees campaign, the solar farm ...

On a warm Thursday morning, we begin our journey east from Amman into the empty desert. It isn’t long before we see the first of thousands of white caravans reflecting the merciless sun; we have ...

The barren, rock-strewn expanse of Jordan's northern desert looks like it could be the backdrop for a science fiction movie. The only comfort this featureless, Martian landscape offers to the more ...

Rows of empty white cabins fill the horizon in a remote desert area 20km (12.5 miles) from al-Azraq in central Jordan. For now this huge refugee camp looks like a ghost town. However, it is ready to ...

12 April 2009 AZRAQ (Petra) - The government will provide Azraq residents with state-owned land to build houses for JD1 per plot under a Royal makruma, Prime Minister Nader Dahabi announced on ...

AMMAN — The weathered stone walls of the Azraq Castle, located some 100 kilometres East of Amman, have witnessed much of human history, serving as a strategic site in Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic ...

Chungwon Choue has visited the Azraq Refugee Camp for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic ©World Taekwondo The academy at Azraq teaches taekwondo to Syrian refugees who have fled ...

A refugee camp in Jordan has become the first in the world to be powered by renewable energy. About 20,000 Syrian refugees living in the desert camp of Azraq will be able to use electricity generated ...

Rows of empty white cabins fill the horizon in a remote desert area 20km (12.5 miles) from al-Azraq in central Jordan. For now this huge refugee camp looks like a ghost town. However, it is ready to ...