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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Minister: Syria Ready to Repatriate Refugees from Lebanon

Syrian refugees walk by their tents at a refugee camp in the town of Bar Elias, in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, July 7, 2022. (AP)

A Syrian Cabinet minister said Monday that Syrian refugees in neighboring Lebanon can start returning home, where he said they will get all the help they need from authorities.

Tiny Lebanon is home to 1 million Syrian refugees who fled war in their country after the conflict began in March 2011. The large number of refugees in the small Mediterranean nation makes it one of the highest per capita host countries of refugees in the world.

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