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Tom Rollins

Tom Rollins is a freelance journalist based in Cairo and Alexandria writing about refugee rights, migration and the Mediterranean. On Twitter: @TomWRollins

A general view shows a deserted street at the beginning of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp April 29, 2015. A bout of fighting between militants over control of the Yarmouk refugee camp on the edge of Damascus has only compounded the misery of residents already suffering from acute shortages of food, clean water and power. REUTERS/Ward Al-Keswani - GF10000077547

Four-year-old siege still punishing civilians in Syria's Yarmouk camp

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Will new regulations help Palestinian-Syrians in Lebanon?

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With evacuations looming, 'de-escalation zone' announced for south Damascus

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Palestinian refugees to return to Damascus camp after four years in the dark

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Syrians salvage medical items from a hospital following an air strike a rebel-controlled town in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on May 1, 2017.

/ AFP PHOTO / AMER ALMOHIBANY (Photo credit should read AMER ALMOHIBANY/AFP/Getty Images)

Rebel infighting puts more strain on hospitals in Syria's Ghouta

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A general view shows a deserted street at the beginning of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp April 29, 2015. A bout of fighting between militants over control of the Yarmouk refugee camp on the edge of Damascus has only compounded the misery of residents already suffering from acute shortages of food, clean water and power. REUTERS/Ward Al-Keswani - RTX1AUSJ

Future uncertain as jihadis begin to leave Damascus' Yarmouk camp

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People stand in front of a damaged building in the northern Syrian town of al-Bab, Syria March 6, 2017. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi - RTS11OJ8

Syria's reconstruction plans take shape

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Satire under siege in south Damascus

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As Lebanon tries to build walls, Palestinian initiatives traverse them

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TOPSHOT - Opposition fighters drive a tank in a rebel-held area of the southern Syrian city of Daraa, during re-newed clashes with regime loyalists on May 10, 2016. / AFP / MOHAMAD ABAZEED (Photo credit should read MOHAMAD ABAZEED/AFP/Getty Images)

Creeping offensives, truces spread tensions in south Syrian rebel ranks

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Syrian children are seen inside an informal settlement for Syrian refugees in Bar Elias, Bekaa valley, Lebanon, January 6, 2016. More than 1 million Syrians are enduring another winter as refugees in Lebanon. For some, it is their fifth in a row, displaced by a war that has driven 4.4 million Syrians into neighbouring states from where many are trying to reach Europe. REUTERS/ Jamal Saidi - RTX21K68

Incitement, tensions rise over Syrian refugees in Lebanon

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Syrian refugees walk at a refugee camp in Zahle in the Bekaa valley November 18, 2014. In October, Lebanon, which has the highest per capita concentration of refugees in the world at one in four residents, said it could not cope with more than one million Syrians and has asked for funds to help look after them. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY IMMIGRATION POVERTY) - RTR4EK8N

Uncertain future for Syrians as EU-Lebanon migration deal looms

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