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In Lebanon, Syrian refugees face new pressure to go home

Lebanese authorities are making their most aggressive campaign yet for Syrian refugees to return home and are taking action to ensure they can't put down roots. Mirroring the rise of anti-migrant sentiment in Europe and around the world, some in Lebanon say that after eight years of war in...

Lebanon to attend Russia-backed talks on Syria

Lebanon's president says his country is eager to take part in Russia-backed political meetings on the Syrian war because it wants to monitor efforts that may accelerate the return of hundreds of thousands of refugees in living in Lebanon. Michel Aoun says, however, that his country's...

Lebanon arrests captagon drug baron: police

Beirut: Lebanon’s police on Wednesday said they arrested a “prominent” drug trafficking baron suspected of smuggling large shipments of the amphetamine-like drug captagon to at least six countries. The 31-year-old suspect “had been professionally smuggling captagon to Arab...

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...