A child died and several people were injured when a fire broke out in a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon Tuesday, rescue workers said, the second such blaze this week. The seven-year-old girl was killed after the fire began at a camp near the town of Bar Elias in the Bekaa Valley after midnight, firefighters … Read more
Seven Lebanese soldiers were wounded on Friday as five militants blew themselves up and a sixth threw a grenade during raids on two refugee camps near the border with Syria, the army said. The civil war, which has raged in Syria since March 2011, has triggered an exodus of more than 1.1 million refugees into … Read more
Palestinian factions battled an extremist group in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Saturday in a second day of clashes that have killed at least two people, medics said. The clashes erupted on Friday night as a security force of leading Palestinian factions in the Ain al-Hilweh camp deployed under a new security plan, … Read more