The number of registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon has dropped to below one million for the first time since 2014, the United Nations told AFP on Tuesday. As of the end of November, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) counted 997,905 Syrian refugees — a vast majority of them women and children — registered in Lebanon. From 2011 until September this year, nearly 49,000 Syrians left Lebanon as part of the United Nations’ resettlement programme to third countries including the United States, Sweden, and France. In December 2016, the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon was 1,011,366. More than five million Syrians have fled the country’s conflict since 2011 to neighbouring Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon, and even higher numbers are displaced internally.

Source: The Guardian December 26, 2017 16:18 UTC