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In this Wednesday, December 18, 2013, file photo, Syrian women wait with their children at the UN refugee agency’s registration center in Zahleh, in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Lebanon’s Own Refugees

by Paula Astih | Apr 27, 2014 | Features

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—As Lebanon and the United Nations Higher Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) struggle to deal with the impact of the more than 1 million Syrian refugees registered in the country, they have come under increasing criticism of lack of support from...

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Lebanese men smoke shisha at a cafe surrounded by sandbags in Hermel, Lebanon, in early March 2014. (Asharq Al-Awsat/Hussein Darwish)

Hermel: Checkpoints, Sandbags, and Shisha

by Nazeer Rida | Mar 12, 2014 | Features

Hermel, Asharq Al-Awsat—Luliana Allam, an agricultural engineer of Romanian origin, checks on the flowers she said she planted in the Lebanese town of Hermel, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the Syrian border, in an attempt to brighten the image of the...

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Lebanese army soldiers stand guard at the site of a car bomb, that targeted Al-Aytam service station the day before and left at least four people dead, in the town of Hermel, in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa valley (AFP PHOTO/STR)

Suicide bomber kills three in Lebanese Hezbollah stronghold

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 2, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut, Reuters—A suicide car bomber killed three people at a petrol station in a stronghold of the Shi’ite militant Hezbollah movement on Lebanon’s northern border on Saturday, the latest sign that Syria’s civil war is spilling over into its small...

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(Top L to R) Judges Walid Akoum, Janet Nosworthy, David Re, Micheline Braidy and Nicola Lettier preside over the courtroom of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in The Hague, The Netherlands, January 16, 2014. The trial in absentia of the four suspects accused of killing Lebanese statesman Rafiq al-Hariri opened in The Hague on Thursday, nine years after the bomb attack in which the former prime minister and 21 others died. REUTERS/Toussaint Kluiters/United Photos (NETHERLANDS – Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)

Explosion hits Lebanon as Hariri assassination trial begins

by Nazeer Rida | Jan 16, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—At least three people were killed and scores were injured in a car bomb that targeted the Lebanese town of Hermel, 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the Syrian border, early on Thursday as the trial in absentia of four Hezbollah members charged...