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Syrian refugees: more than 5m have now fled country

(The Guardian)- The number of Syrians who have fled their country has topped 5 million after six years of war, the UN’s refugee agency has said. UNHCR announced the milestone a year after participating countries at a Geneva conference pledged to “resettle and facilitate pathways for...

Lebanese town to shut down Syrian refugees camps

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The municipality of the Lebanese Kherbit Dawood town in Akkar province has issued an order to close all camps and collections of Syrians in the town's boundaries within 3 months. A order to closing all camps and collections of Syrians in Kherbit Dawood town was faced with...

Syrian refugee tent finds life as dress with a past

Once home to a family of Syrian refugees, a U.N. tent has found a new life as a dress still bearing the marks and stains of its past. "Dress for Our Time," the brainchild of fashion designer Helen Storey, has turned a discarded tent from the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan into a hooded dress...