Refugees in a border town in northeast Lebanon are returning to Syria due to the harsh conditions there. Human Rights Watch has found multiple rights violations taking place in the city, which is under strict military control.
George and Amal Clooney have decided to fund schools for 3,000 Syrian refugee children in Lebanon. NGOs are split over Italian migrant rescue rules of conduct and Italy's Surpreme Court has ruled against deporting a disabled migrant.
A foundation set up by George and Amal Clooney is to fund public schools for 3,000 Syrian refugee children in Lebanon. Close to 200,000 Syrian refugee children in Lebanon are currently out of school.
About 1.5 million Syrian refugees, including half a million children, have ended up in neighboring Lebanon. While the state grapples with how to provide education and social welfare to these displaced kids, a troupe of local clowns are doing their bit by providing a little comic relief.
"The Camp" is a song about child refugees in Lebanon. It was written by PJ Harvey in cooperation with Egyptian artist Ramy Essam. All proceeds from the song will go to support an association helping the displaced.
Syrian refugees in northern Lebanon have created a Syrian peace proposal, which they presented to the Italian Parliament in Rome on the occasion of World Refugee Day
Lebanon is home to some 1.5 million Syrian refugees, who get blamed for dragging the economy down. Though false, the slurs effectively make them the target of xenophobic attacks, reports Anchal Vohra from Beirut.
NaTakallam is a project enabling Syrian refugees to teach spoken Arabic to students all over the world through Skype. It provides the newcomers with an opportunity to earn money and promotes cultural exchange between the participants.
Migration and the refugee crisis are on the agenda as G7 leaders meet in Taormina, Italy. 200 children have died crossing the Mediterranean Sea so far this year, and many migrants are without shelter in northern France after fires destroyed the migrant camp in Grande-Synthe. This and more in today's news roundup.
This picture shows Hassan, Khaled, Alaa and Farah, four Syrian children living in the informal camp of Bar Elias, which is located in Lebanon's Bekaa valley. One in three children in Lebanon are Syrian refugees.
Today's picture shows three children at a refugee camp in southern Lebanon.
This picture shows a street in Shatila, one of 12 Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. It is located in the middle of Beirut and is the largest camp in population.