The war in Syria continues to be the main reason for thousands of asylum applications in Europe, the EU said on Wednesday. A new report released by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) revealed that, despite a more than 7 percent decline in the number of asylum applications in 2016...

 Lebanon's army said on Tuesday that four Syrian men it had arrested after a raid on a refugee camp on Friday had died while in detention from chronic illnesses. It said in a statement posted on its website that the four were already unwell but that after a routine medical inspection upon...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Radhwan Mohammed al-Issa, 29, an amputee Syrian refugee, was never visited by Lebanese politicians to present him with a wheelchair, crutches or artificial limbs to help him move around inside al-Nour camp at the outskirts of Arsal on the Syrian-Lebanese border. No Lebanese...

A fire caused by an electrical malfunction killed a girl at a Syrian refugee camp in the Lebanese Bekaa Valley overnight, a medical source said on Tuesday, in the second lethal blaze in a refugee camp in the area three days. On Sunday, a fire destroyed a Syrian refugee camp near Qab Elias,...