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Syrians in remote tented settlement feel abandoned

By Jamal Halaby
Published February 22, 2014 8:25am ET
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Syrians in remote tented settlement feel abandoned
Syria-Isolated Refugees -- In this Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 photo, Syrian refugees attend a class in a tent in Northern Shuneh area of Jordan Valley, north of Amman, Jordan. About 2.3 million Syrians have fled the three-year old Syrian conflict, seeking shelter in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq, according to UNHCR figures. At least half, or 1.1 million, are children. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh) | Raad Adayleh

NORTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan (AP) — Every day at dawn, teenager Sultan Ahmad al-Saleh gets up and starts work, 12 hours in the fields picking vegetables in this remote corner of northwestern Jordan. It’s what he’s been doing for the past three years, ever since he was 14 years old and his family fled here to escape Syria’s civil war.

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