AL RUKBAN REFUGEE CAMP — Some 80,000 people are trapped in a scrub
land of hopelessness in a forgotten corner of the Middle East.
Huddling in the wind, walled in by desert
sandbanks, they have been driven there by war. Abandoned by governments,
they are preyed on by the very ISIS gunmen and suicide bombers they
fled their homelands to escape.
NBC News was given unique access to the area
where Rukban straddles a rocky, arid no man's land along the border
linking Syria and Jordan — an important American ally, and a key member
of the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS.
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