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October 29, 2025

Lebanon and Syria October 2025: A Snapshot

Ambassador Ryan Crocker reports on his visit to Lebanon and Syria on October 12-17 as part of a small delegation organized by the Washington office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

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Dec 16, 2020
A man cleans in a street near destroyed buildings in the Palestinian camp of Yarmuk southern Damascus on November 1, 2018. - Former residents of the Palestinian camp of Yarmuk are desperately counting on help from abroad to help raise the once-bustling neighbourhood back out of the rubble.

Palestinian refugees can no longer be sidelined

Dec 14, 2020

2020 Year in Review

Dec 8, 2020

The Middle East and American Democracy’s Near-Death Experience