President Michel Suleiman urged donors on Wednesday to provide Lebanon with $370 million assistance for refugees from Syria and called for countries to take in some of the displaced after ringing the alarm bell. The government has approved a $370 million comprehensive plan for the refugees - $180 f...

Beirut,15 March 2013-During his last visit to Lebanon, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres reiterated his call for governments to create special funds to support Syrian refugees and the countries that host them.Speaking to journalists in Beirut on the second anniversary of the start o...

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.

At a school in Akkar in northern Lebanon, a sign at the entrance once read “Centre for refugees”. But the word “refugee” has been scribbled out, and replaced by “visitors”. The number of Syrians in Lebanon has soared from 5,000 less than two years ago to more than half a million today. In total, ...

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”.

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), at least 343, 015 Syrian refugee children are in Lebanon. Of those, roughly 115,000 have received psychosocial support in 2013.

Syrian students to attend afternoon ‘second shifts’. Starting at the end of November, Syrian students at 70 schools across Lebanon will attend classes during special “second shifts” in the afternoons, says the United Nations Higher Commission for Refugees

The roof of the Insani School in Sidon, which was built under pressure to take on approximately 450 Syrian students immediately, has been turned into a playground for refugees eager to resume learning. But Mohammad Ezzeddine, who hails from Idlib and is in seventh grade, told The Daily Star Wednesda...