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US Deputy Assistant Secretary Afreen Akhter arrived in Dhaka today (November 5, 2022) on a two-day visit.

Director-General of Lebanon’s General Security, Major General Abbas Ibrahim, on Thursday welcomed the representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Lebanon Ayaki Ito, with whom he discussed th...

The Lebanese and Syrian presidents discussed delineating their countries' shared maritime border on Saturday before a visit to Damascus next week by a Lebanese delegation tasked with negotiating the issue, a Lebanese official said. A dispute over their shared sea boundary emerged last year after Syria granted a licence to a Russian energy company to begin maritime exploration in an area Lebanon claimed.

But while frontlines in Syria's 11-year war are now largely inactive, the United Nations says flare-ups in violence and the risk of detention mean large-scale returns remain unsafe. Lebanon is home to more than 800,000 Syrians registered with the U.N. refugee agency, who fled the conflict unleashed in 2011 after protests against President Bashar Al-Assad.

Discrediting journalists who buck the dominant narratives of corporate media is becoming a cottage industry. Last week, it was my turn. Last week, a cache of around 17,000 documents allegedly hacked from Iranian media outlet Press TV, began...

Hundreds of Syrian refugees have boarded a convoy of trucks in the Lebanese mountain town of Arsal to return to their war-torn country. Wednesday's journey is the latest attempt by the government in Beirut to organize a mass refugee return from tiny, crisis-ridden Lebanon. More than a million Syrian refugees — and many claim the number is far higher — live in Lebanon, where politicians frequently blame the refugees for the country’s economic woes. Political leaders have periodically a...

ARSAL, Lebanon—Hundreds of Syrian refugees returned home from Lebanon on Wednesday, the first day of repatriations organized by ...

Lebanese authorities say the repatriations are voluntary.

[videopress Nwb2uGOh hd=true permalink=false autoplay=true] Several buses of Syrian refugee families were repatriated Wednesday morning from different areas in Lebanon, the state-run National...

The first group of Syrian refugees left Lebanon under a repatriation plan slammed by rights groups.