The Rukban refugee camp (Arabic: مخيم الرُّكبان للاجئين) lies in southern Syria adjacent to the Jordan–Syria border, and close to the tripoint with Iraq.

[1] Following the 2024 Syrian opposition offensives and the fall of the Assad regime, the blockade was ended and some refugees began returning to other parts of Syria.

[5] Jordanian minister of foreign affairs Nasser Judeh said in a press conference about the incident that "we don't need a hideous terrorist attack like this one to prove to the world the legitimacy of our security concerns".

[9] A Jordanian military source said a car bomb exploded in the market area of the camp on 3 May 2017, killing four Syrians and injuring others.

[11] On 23 August 2018, Russian spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed that hundreds of ISIL and Jabhat al-Nusra members were hiding among the refugees inside the camp, using them as human shields, with the knowledge of the U.S. military at the nearby Al-Tanf air base in Syria.

Ambassador to Jordan, made the claim that the refugee camp housed a variety of different people possibly including armed groups and terrorists.

[18] Rukban received its first aid delivery in three months on 7 February 2019 with the United Nations and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent reaching the camp with 118 trucks packed with food supplies, basic medicines, education items and children's recreational kits.

[21] In November 2024, Syrian opposition groups launched a series of offensives on various regime-held cities, capturing Aleppo, Hama, and many other towns.

The news was met with widespread celebrations in the refugee camp, as residents hoped the offensive would finally allow them to return home.

[22] The Revolutionary Commando Army, a small rebel group headquartered in the Al-Tanf military base located next to the camp, eventually joined the offensives and moved towards Palmyra and Damascus.

Following the fall of Damascus and disintegration of the Assad government, the regime-imposed blockade was lifted, and thousands of people living in the camp began returning to their homes in the rest of Syria.