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Record 70.8 million people now displaced worldwide, UN says

More than 70 million people were counted last year as displaced from their homes, a record that underestimates the real number of refugees and asylum seekers, the UN said Wednesday. In its annual global trends report, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) described the figure of 70.8...

Assad constructs new airstrip for Iran near Lebanon

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl has obtained fresh satellite images uncover the regime’s establishment of a new  helipad near Shamsein camp in central Homs province. The images show the ongoing construction of a helipad, 550 meters in length and about 150 in width. It is similar...

After refuge in northwest Syria, a family again faces danger

After losing her husband, a son and her home to Syria's eight-year war, Yusra al-Shomali and her daughters found refuge in rebel-held territory near the Turkish border. But as a Syrian army offensive intensifies, their safety may be put at risk. Shomali's experience of fear, siege, hunger,...

Syrian refugees in Lebanon camp forced to destroy homes

Abu Mohamed lost his house in Syria early in the civil war. Six years on, it's happening again -- only this time in Lebanon and he has to destroy it himself. His family and thousands of others crammed in this remote mountainous region of northeastern Lebanon have been ordered to demolish...