AMMAN — Jordan hosts the third largest number of refugees in the world, and the largest refugee community globally when compared with the population, Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour said Saturday. Ensour noted that the direct cost of hosting hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees on the Kingdom...

Syria – doubling of refugees fleeing to Jordan The pace of arrivals from the Syrian border to the Za’atri camp in the north of Jordan has doubled in the past week. 10,200 people arrived in the seven days between 21-27 August compared to 4,500 the previous week. More than 22,000 people have been rec...