Jordan is the sum of its neighbors’ wars. Three journalists follow a family’s quest for medical care and investigate the Syrian narrative in the kingdom. Story by Emma Pearson and Katie Welsford. Photography by Tom Bradley. It was July, two weeks into Ramadan. Our car was speeding toward Amman along the endless two-lane highway, slicing through the stoney plains of Jordan’s desolate eastern desert. Rarely frequented — except for transportation trucks making the arduous journey from Baghdad as well as the occasional tourist on his way to one of the area’s handful of early-Islamic castles and fortresses — we had the road to ourselves that afternoon. The Islamic State’s recent march across...
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