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Syrian Refugees

Lebanon’s southern town shuts shops run by Syrian refugees

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Many towns in southern Lebanon have started issuing orders to close shops and workshops managed and owned by Syrians, according to sources. The town council of al-Bisariyah in the countryside of Saida city in southern Lebanon had on March 4, announced closing all shops owned or...

Trapped Syrians tell of misery in no man's land

A Jordanian army ambulance pulled up at a makeshift clinic a few hundred meters from a desert border camp where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are trapped in no man's land. A paramedic clambered out, carrying an emaciated boy around two years old. "Whose child is this?" he shouted...

Trapped Syrians tell of misery in no man's land

A Jordanian army ambulance pulled up at a makeshift clinic a few hundred metres from a desert border camp where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are trapped in no man's land. A paramedic clambered out, carrying an emaciated boy around two years old. "Whose child is this?" he shouted...

UN defends refugee vetting as Trump mulls revised entry ban

In an office cubicle at the U.N. refugee agency, a Syrian woman and her three daughters took turns staring into a camera for iris scans. Their biometric registration, a first step toward possible resettlement in the West, is to be followed by interviews and background checks that can take months...