A camp of displaced in the desert of Syriawhere people lived in inhumane conditions, closed its gates after departure and last families to their places of origin, the Syrian authorities said today.

Its camp RukbanLocated near the border with Jordan and Iraq, it was founded in 2014, at the culmination of the war in Syria, in a controlled area from the international coalition led by the United States, fighting against the Islamic State jihadist organization.

People who were trying to escape his jihadists Islamic State or the bombings of the government forces had found refuge there. Due to its remote location, Rukban has been considered one of the most miserable and neglected refugee camps in Syria for years.

About 8,000 people still lived there before the fall of President Bashar al -Assad in December 2024, who was overthrown by Islamic organizations, and survived with food and basic goods that were smuggled at high prices.

“With the dissolution of Rukban’s camp and the return of displaced (to their places), a tragic and painful chapter for the displacements created by the former regime’s war machine closes,” Syrian Intelligence Minister said today Hamza Al Mustafa In his post on the Platform X.

“Rukban was not only a camp, it was the triangle of death, a witness to the cruelty of siege and hunger, where the regime abandoned people in their painful fate in the desert,” he added.

The camp hosted up to 100,000 people. Over time, the displaced left there, mainly after Jordan closed its borders and stopped the regular humanitarian aid traditions in 2016.

Syrian Minister of Emergency and Disasters Red al-Saleh said he hoped that other displaced camps in the country will also be able to close so that their residents could return to their homes.

The Syrian Emergency Task Force, based in the US, had stated on Friday that the camp is now “officially closed and empty”.

The war in Syria broke out after the bloody repression by Damascus demonstrations in favor of democracy in 2011. He left more than half a million dead, millions of displaced and damaged infrastructure.

According to the International Migration Organization (IOM), 1.87 million people displaced inside Syria or abroad are returning to their places of origin since last December.