Lebanon is counting on international assistance in the return of Syrian refugees and Palestinians who fled to Lebanon from the Damascus suburbs to escape war, Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Wednesday at a meeting with Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)

President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that US-brokered peace agreements between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain will not bring stability to the region as the issue of the occupation of Palestine will stay unresolved

Five people were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of setting fire to the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, Greek Civil Protection Minister Michalis Chrisochoidis said

Greece plans to strengthen the police presence at a new migrant facility as the country makes efforts to relocate thousands of residents of the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, which was devastated by a powerful blaze, the Ekathimerini newspaper reported on Tuesday

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Interior Minister Horst Seehofer agreed on Tuesday to take in about 1,500 additional migrants from the burned down camp of Moria, located on the Greek island of Lesbos, German media outlets reported