The Rukban refugee camp (Arabic: مخيم الرُّكبان للاجئين) lies in southern Syria adjacent to the Jordan–Syria border, and close to the tripoint with Iraq. It is named after the nearby Rukban area, an arid remote region in northeastern Jordan .

Rukban (Arabic: الرُّكبان, romanized: Al-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.

2024年3月14日 · Many fled to this area in Syria near the border with Jordan, known as Rukban camp, from other areas of Syria during the past thirteen years of conflict. For years, the Assad regime and its allies have laid siege to the camp, preventing food, medicine, and other essential assistance from reaching its residents.

Since 2016, + 8,000 refugees living in the Rukban internally displaced persons (IDP) camp have endured abysmal conditions. As a result of a blockade imposed by the Assad regime, and re-enforced by their Russian and Iranian allies, the camp’s residents have been severely deprived of food, medicine, clean water, education, and much more.

The United States (US) should urgently provide humanitarian aid to at least 8,000 displaced Syrians stranded in the besieged, isolated Rukban camp under US de facto control on Syria’s border with Jordan and Iraq without access to sufficient food, clean water or healthcare, Amnesty International said today.

2020年3月14日 · For more than four years, Rukban, a camp near the Jordanian and Iraqi borders, has housed thousands of displaced Syrians in mud brick homes and makeshift tents, many constructed by the camp...

2023年5月28日 · Rukban camp is surrounded by Syrian government and Russian forces, who accuse its more than 8,000 residents of being “terrorists” and since 2019 have blocked United Nations aid from entering,...

2022年5月19日 · The Syrian government and its Russian backers have tightened their blockade on Rukban camp, a makeshift settlement housing about 10,000 internally displaced Syrians in the arid “no man’s land”...

2017年11月9日 · The situation in the Rukban camp for internally displaced persons near the border with Jordan is rapidly deteriorating. International humanitarian groups are close to being overwhelmed, despite local NGOs and rebel groups trying to help out as well.

Rukban is an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp located in a desolate area of the southern Syrian border. The camp is close to the borders of both Jordan and Iraq and lies within the U.S. al-Tanf garrison’s 55-km deconfliction zone.