Donors channelling funds towards Syrian refugees in Lebanon must also assist their poor Lebanese hosts to diffuse rising tensions, aid workers and a government official said ahead of an international pledging conference for humanitarian aid to Syria and its neighbours. “We have seen a growing sen...

Donor countries have pledged more than $1.5 billion for Syrians displaced by nearly two years of fighting, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, after a donor conference in Kuwait. Ban Ki-moon told the final session of the one-day conference that the meeting has "reached its target" of...

A Syrian refugee, once a national player, revives his dream of playing and coaching football.

Lebanon is working with the World Bank on a fund to manage aid coming from donor countries to assist the government and U.N. agencies with the growing number of Syrian refugees, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Monday.

The United Nations’ refugee agency announced on Saturday that the number of Syrians who have fled their war-torn country and came to Lebanon has reached 779,000.

Every day hundreds of refugees arrive at the gates of the High Commissioner for Refugees of the United Nations in Beirut. Watch the below Euronews special report entitled ”The plight of Syrian refugees who flee to Lebanon”.

ctor Michael Sheen warns of 'cold weather catastrophe' for Syrian refugees. British actor Michael Sheen has warned of a "cold weather catastrophe" after visiting some of Syria's refugees in their tent city in Lebanon. He spent time with families living in improvised shacks, often without access to h...

In Lebanon's Bekaa valley, the sun is still shining. But soon temperatures will dip and snow will blanket fields that house hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. Their shelters are little more than wooden frames covered with tarpaulins or, in some cases, plastic sacks sewn into patchwork quil...

IT IS not difficult to see why António Guterres, the head of the United Nations' refugee agency (UNHCR) describes Syria as a "calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history". More than 2.2m Syrians, or about a tenth of the population, are registered as refugees. Half of them...

The United Nations has announced it's biggest ever appeal, seeking $6.5bn (£4bn; 4.7bn euros) for humanitarian aid to Syria. The UN estimates nearly three-quarters of Syria's 22.4 million population will need humanitarian aid in 2014.