Overseen by Lebanese general security forces and the army, Syrian refugees who have taken shelter in the Arsal area of Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley prepare to return home through the Qaa border crossing in vehicles packed with their belongings.
Syrian refugees living in a camp in the Arsal region of Lebanon have been ordered to demolish hard shelters, which the authorities consider illegal construction.
Hundreds of Syrian refugees, most of them farmers, leave Lebanon, from the city of Arsal in the Bakaa valley on the eastern border with Syria, for their neighbouring home country, in the latest such return coordinated between Beirut and Damascus.
Hundreds of Syrian refugees begin returning home from the Lebanese border town of Arsal as part of a coordinated operation between authorities in Beirut and Damascus.
As the Islamic State massacred its way throughout Iraq and Syria this summer, a separate battle took place in neighboring Lebanon.
This summer, the Islamic State invaded the Lebanese border town of Arsal, beheading captured soldiers and unleashing waves of lethal car bombs, destabilizing the country.
Hezbollah, one of the world’s strongest guerrilla armies, has also become involved — either defending Lebanon, or making things worse, depending on who you ask.
VICE News traveled to Lebanon to explore the battle being waged by one of the world’s fiercest militant groups against one of the Middle East’s smallest and most fragile nations.
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The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: rights watchdog says footage implicates Nigerian military in war crimes, 24-hour truce agreed in Lebanese border region, tensions escalate in Azerbaijan’s ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, and scientists may have explained why a huge crater formed in Siberia.
NIGERIA
Report Accuses Military of War Crimes Against Boko Haram Detainees
Throat-slitting, extrajudicial killings and mass executions are some of the allegations Amnesty International has made.
LEBANON
Brief Truce Brokered in Border Region
Dozens of policemen and troops were abducted when Islamist rebels seized the town of Arsal over the weekend.
AZERBAIJAN
Tensions Flare in Little-Known Breakaway Enclave
Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia plan to meet this week to resolve the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
RUSSIA
Potential Explanation of Siberian Crater Mystery
Scientists believe a high concentration of methane gas released because of warm temperatures collapsed frozen ground.
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The VICE News Capsule is a daily roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: journalists in Iran, Iraq’s child bride legislation, BP signs a new contract and Lebanon deploys troops in Arsal.
Journalists Convince Iran to Withdraw Repressive Measures
Iran is scrapping its plan to regulate journalism after receiving an open letter from more than 400 of the country’s journalists.
Iraq’s Controversial Child Bride Legislation
A controversial new law being drafted in Iraq would make it legal for children as young as 9 to get married.
BP Wins US Oil Contract
Just four years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP has won a new oil contract.
Lebanese Army Deployed in Border Town of Arsal
The Lebanese Army has deployed forces in Arsal – a Sunni town on the border of Lebanon and Syria.