Heavy Winter Storm Wrecks Syrian Refugee Camps In Lebanon Thousands of Syrians seeking refuge in neighboring Lebanon are scrambling for shelter and an 8-year-old girl was reported dead.

Syrian refugees carry gasoline under heavy snow fall at the U.N.-run refugee camp of Fayda, near the Bekaa Valley town of Zahle in eastern Lebanon on January 7, 2015.

Refugees who came in the summer months, did not come prepared to endure the harsh winter. Laith, a 14-year old refugee who came to Lebanon two months ago told me: “The problem is that I only ...

This region hosts 39,000 refugees across 133 informal tented settlements and other shelters. The UNHCR reports 85,022 households in Lebanon are headed by females, and 8,163 of those are single ...

Storms in Lebanon have flooded Syrian refugee camps, ruining tents, mattresses and food and compounding the misery of people enduring powerful winter winds and biting cold. More than a million ...

BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon—One of the strongest winter storms in the Middle East in a decade has left hundreds of thousands of refugees—from the streets of Beirut to makeshift tent settlements in ...

Some estimate there to be around 1.6 million refugees in Lebanon, of whom a large number reside in 1,400 temporary camps set up across the country. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ...

Syrian refugees in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley thought life couldn’t get much harsher. But that was before winter storm “Alexa” moved in. The rain and snow have since made things even more ...

Lebanon's displaced facing cold as well as hunger Supplies running tight in Deir al-Ahmar in eastern Lebanon Mountainous area difficult to access for aid workers Winter snow likely to cut off only ...

Thousands of Syrians seeking refuge in neighboring Lebanon are scrambling for shelter and an 8-year-old girl was reported dead. Updated at 3:25 p.m. ET. Thousands of Syrian refugees have been ...

Refugees who came in the summer months, did not come prepared to endure the harsh winter. Laith, a 14-year old refugee who came to Lebanon two months ago told me: “The problem is that I only ...