[caption id="attachment_156437" align="alignright" width="240"] Lebanese Minister of Social Affairs Rashid Derbas[/caption] Lebanese Minister of Social Affairs Rashid Derbas says his country will seek over $2 billion in international aid during the Third International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria to cover the expenses for Syrian refugees ...

[caption id="attachment_144085" align="alignright" width="142"] Syrians in a refugee camp in eastern Lebanon prepare to remove the snow threatening the stability of their tents on January 7, 2015.[/caption] At least four Syrian refugees, including two children, have succumbed to a severe cold spell in Lebanon, Press TV reports. Lebanon is experiencing ...

A senior United Nations humanitarian official calls on the international community to support Lebanon as the number of Syrian refugees continues to rise there. It is imperative that the international community helps bear the brunt of the pressure on Lebanon, Ross Mountain, the Acting UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Lebanon, told a news ...

[caption id="attachment_85108" align="alignright" width="180"] Syrian boy Toufic al-Hajj Hassan, 13, from the village of Taybet al-Imam in the countryside of the Syrian city of Hama, poses for a picture at a construction site in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Oct. 25, 2013, where he works to provide income for his family. Toufic fled Syria five ...

The United Nations refugee agency says one out of five people living in Lebanon are refugees who have fled the nearly three-year-long conflict in neighboring Syria. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has surpassed the 848,000 ...

Human Rights Watch has expressed concern about the safety of female refugees fleeing the crisis in Syria, saying they have been sexually abused in Lebanon. The rights organization said on Wednesday that it had interviewed a dozen female refugees in Lebanon who said they had been sexually harassed and exploited. Women who have fled death and destruction ...

Thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the conflict in the Arab country have entered Lebanon over the past two days, a local official says. Ahmad al-Hojairi, an official in Lebanons border town of Arsal, said on Saturday that some 1,000 families have fled to Arsal since Friday. "We are trying to accommodate them in people's homes and in tents, but ...

More than 400,000 Syrian refugee children in Lebanon are in urgent need of assistance from the international community ahead of a severe winter, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says. In a press release on Friday, UNICEF called for further international investment in public services such as education for the refugee children. The report ...

Syrians who have been forced to leave their homes due to an ongoing crisis in the country continue to suffer at home and abroad,Press TVreports. In Lebanons Beqaa Valley, falling temperature is creating more hardships for Syrian refugees, a Press TV correspondent reported on Tuesday. Most of the refugees live in overcrowded houses, while others ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Lebanon, Fabrizio Carbone, praised Iran for the humanitarian aid it has delivered to the Syrian refugees in Lebanon so far. In a meeting with Irans Ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi, the ICRC official appreciated the Islamic Republic for its humanitarian ...

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman has voiced concern over the condition in his country due to the inflow of at least a million Syrian refugees. On Tuesday, Suleiman lamented the crisis in Lebanon in his address to world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, saying the number of refugees have reached around a fourth of Lebanon's ...

BEIRUT: MPMichel Aounsaid over the weekend his bloc would propose a draft law to address the growing problem of Syrian refugees, sayingDamascuswould ensure their safety once they return. "I am warning against the dangerous repercussions from the [presence] of Syrian refugees, particularly as the winter season approaches, Aoun told a crowd of his supporters ...

A wave of xenophobia is blighting the lives of thousands of Syrian refugees in countries such as Egypt and Lebanon, where they are often blamed for anything that goes wrong. In Egypt, Syrians are accused of taking sides and interfering in the countrys political crisis, while in Lebanon they are accused of taking the jobs of Lebanese. Egyptian media ...

The United Nations (UN) Humanitarian Aid Chief Valerie Amos has called for support for Lebanon to manage Syrian refugees, emphasizing that the crisis is taking a toll on the countrys economy. On Tuesday, the UN chief visited the Lebanese Prime Minister designate, Tammam Salam, and discussed the condition of the Syrian refugees in the country. "I ...