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75,000 Syrian Refugees Trapped, Dying Near Border, Amnesty Says

Around 75,000 refugees are stranded in a no-man's land on the Syria-Jordan border, and hundreds are dying because they are cut off from food and medical aid, Amnesty International said Friday. The alert came ahead of two high-profile summits in the United States on the global refugee crisis. The human rights group obtained rare video footage from the border area showing upturned rocks scattered across the desert landscape — makeshift graves that mark the untold suffering of tens of...

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