CAIRO — Omar al Assad, a Syrian refugee in Jordan, had been preparing for a trip to the United States with his family to start a new life. They were to depart Feb. 6.
He received a call that ended those plans over the weekend from a resettlement officer with the International Organization for Migration. The agency in Amman, Jordan, had resettled 18,300 Syrians, Iraqis, Somalis, Sudanese and others last year.
