Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil has directed authorities to freeze all residency applications submitted by the United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR, his office said in an emailed statement on Friday. Lebanon hosts more than a million Syrian refugees who constitute more than...

( The Daily Star )- Thousands of Syrian refugees in the northeastern town of Arsal have registered their names to return back to Syria, the town’s mayor said Monday. Bassel Hujeiri confirmed to The Daily Star that a list with the names of 3,000 refugees looking to return back home was...

Heavy rain overnight damaged three tents occupied by Syrian refugees in the northeastern town of Arsal, the state-run National News Agency reported Sunday. The Daily Star

 Some 250 asylum-seekers have blocked a busy northern Greek highway, in a second day of protests against overcrowding and poor conditions in the nearby camp they are housed in. The peaceful protest by mostly Kurdish migrants at Diavata, on Thessaloniki's western outskirts, lasted...