A new batch of Syrian refugees returned to their home country Thursday from various areas in Lebanon, in the latest voluntary return organized by General Security. Some 59 people gathered in Nabatieh before being taken by two buses across the Syrian border, the state-run National News...

Labor Minister Camille Abousleiman said Wednesday his ministry’s inspectors shuttered 20 shops as part of its crackdown on undocumented foreign labor, after the one-month grace period he gave employers to apply for a work permit ended. “Our goal is to regulate foreign labor and grant work...

At 2 am one Saturday night, Syrian brothers Mustafa and Ahmed were at home hunched over a screen watching live black and white security camera footage of men destroying their clothes shop. They watched as a small group of Turkish men broke their glass storefront, ripped up Arabic leaflets...

Qusayr, a once bustling commercial hub in western Syria, has not seen any fighting since government troops, with the help of Lebanon’s powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah group, drove out Sunni Muslim rebels six years ago. Large sections of the city lie in ruin and of the thousands who fled...