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Looking Back: The Refugees Trapped in a Corner of Syria, Now Free

State of the World from NPR

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Why the camp was cut off for years

Jane Araf explains how ISIS, the Assad regime, Russia, and neighboring countries trapped roughly 7,000 refugees in Rukban.

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