Tag: Refugees of the Syrian Civil War

Over 4,000 Syrian refugees had been quietly brought to Israel to receive medical treatment.

"At first, I didn’t want the refugees we were helping to know I was a Druze, but they recognized me from my accent."

Resolution 2254 was invoked by Iran, Russia, and Turkey as the legal basis for their takeover of the political process in Syria, backed by their enhanced military operations against rebel groups.

The Russians also insist that the only acceptable outcome to the civil war must be reinstating Bashar al-Assad as the president of all of Syria.

On Tuesday morning, Syrian regime-affiliated military planes bombed a school that serves as a shelter for refugees in Ein Tina on the outskirts of Quneitra.

As many as 160,000 Syrians have fled the war zone to the Jordanian and Israeli borders, where neither country is prepared to let them in.

The Syrian president is more concerned 'how to have Syrians return to their homeland rather than how to send them to the US.'

The Trump order is based on the Obama Administration's Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act (H.R. 158), which prohibits some foreign nationals from visiting the US if they have recently traveled to Iran, Iraq, Sudan or Syria.

The takeaway from King Abdullah II's speech is not about his faint call on Israel to be more peaceful with its terrorist neighbors, but a cry for help in managing the Arab hordes on either side of his gates.