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Syrian refugees in Lebanon face growing restrictions and deportation

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Thirteen years since Syria’s civil war broke out, Lebanon remains home to the largest Syrian refugee population per capita in the world: roughly 1.5 million people. Now, Lebanese politicians say they must be sent home. Many employers have stopped hiring Syrians for menial jobs. And municipalities have issued new restrictions, even evicting Syrian tenants, according to recent news reports.

Tourists walk past life preservers on the beaches of Kos, Greece.

Bikinis and lifevests: Indelible images from an island shared by tourists, refugees

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Ahmed Lababidi left his war torn hometown, Aleppo, Syria, fleeing across the Turkish border in 2012. He followed his younger brother to South Korea and settled on the island of Jeju.

A Syrian man takes refuge in a Korean honeymoon resort island

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Dr. Zoi Livaditou (R) greets Dr. Shimrit Eliyah of Israid in Skala Sykaminia, Lesbos, Greece. Dr. Andreas Iliadis looks on.

On Lesbos, a courageous doctor struggles to save Syrian refugees and help locals

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Young migrants and refugees walk through a town in northern Serbia toward the Hungarian border. There's a fear that young men like these might bring violence with them.

These men say they’re leaving Syria because they don’t want to fight anyone

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An Iraqi man mourns his wife on the beach on Lesbos on October 15, 2015.

How one Syrian refugee wound up bringing his dying wife with him to Greece

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Migrants and refugees from Middle East nations, like Syria, are continuing to pour into Europe by the thousands, every day. Many land on the Greek island of Lesbos.

The ancient Theatre of Assos overlooking the Aegean Sea, with the nearby island of Lesbos on the horizon, at right.

This beautiful Turkish tourist town is now home to boats stuffed with refugees and migrants headed for Lesbos

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Although the scenery in the ancient city of Assos in Turkey could not be more stunning, the situation is grim for refugees and migrants in camps who must do business with traffickers in order to cross the Aegean Sea and enter Europe, in hope of getting asylum.

Two of the rejected covers that French magazine the Charlie Hebdo instead placed at the back of the issue.

Why Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons of the drowned Syrian boy are lost in translation

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Cartoons published by Charlie Hebdo, the satirical French magazine, are riffing off the heartbreaking image of Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi lying face down in the sand and it’s provoking reaction online. Here’s what’s behind the controversy.

A Syrian child receives a toy in the home a Berlin resident.

She saw herself in the face of a Syrian girl driven from her home

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Anna Dushime, a Berlin resident, originally from Rwanda opened her home to a family of Syrian refugees.

A young Syrian girl is wrapped with a thermal blanket following a rescue operation on the island of Lesbos, in Greece.

Icelanders say they want to house Syrian refugees — but in Greece the government and residents are overwhelmed

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Iceland’s government says it’s willing to accept 50 Syrian refugees during the next two years. But a Facebook event page has been created to challenge that policy and more than 10,000 Icelanders on the page have offered to take in Syrians on the run. Meanwhile, on the Greek island of Lesbos, a sharp increase in the number of refugees arriving on the island is leaving government officials and residents overwhelmed.