The Zaatari refugee camp sprawls across the featureless, colorless desert of northern Jordan, six miles from the border with Syria, a country torn limb from limb by civil war. Among the camp’s 120,000 residents, the conventional wisdom has long been the same as in Washington, D.C.: Surely, the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is inevitable and imminent; and once that happens, the displaced can go home. But on June 5, Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon defeated Syrian rebel forces in the strategic city of Qusayr.
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