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Hundreds of Syrian refugees in Lebanon return home

Hundreds of Syrian refugees have headed home in the first batch to leave Lebanon since protests broke out in the small Arab country more than a month ago. Since the early hours of Tuesday, scores of Syrians boarded buses in several locations in Lebanon before heading back to their...

Syrian pound at new low as crisis roils neighboring Lebanon

The Syrian pound hit a record low Monday amid the country’s grinding civil war, now in its ninth year, and as a financial and political crisis roils neighboring Lebanon, Syria’s economic lung. When Syria’s conflict erupted in March 2011, a dollar was valued at 47 pounds. On Monday, it...

Turkish President, new EU commission head discuss Syria

The new president of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday on her first day in office. The two discussed Turkey’s accession to the EU, March 18, 2016 agreement between the sides regarding support to the Syrians in Turkey, and...