For decades, the collective Arab dream has been a "free Palestine". Since the 1950s, the Palestinian cause has been the pinnacle of Arab aspirations and the centre of the pan-Arab movement. Arabs and Palestinians identified with each other through a shared language, similarities in culture and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Key refugee councils in the Lebanese border town of Arsal assured that UNHCR had never discouraged them from returning, calling on the Lebanese government and the United Nations’ refugee agency to find common ground over the crisis as more than 60,000 Syrians live in Arsal....

Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil has directed authorities to freeze all residency applications submitted by the United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR, his office said in an emailed statement on Friday. Lebanon hosts more than a million Syrian refugees who constitute more than...

( The Daily Star )- Thousands of Syrian refugees in the northeastern town of Arsal have registered their names to return back to Syria, the town’s mayor said Monday. Bassel Hujeiri confirmed to The Daily Star that a list with the names of 3,000 refugees looking to return back home was...