World Refugee Day

BEIRUT, June 20: Refugee children pose for a photograph at a Syrian refugee camp in Bar Elias, Bekaa Valley, eastern Lebanon on Tuesday, ahead of World Refugee Day. After years of war in Syria, Syrian refugees continued their lives in Lebanon. The number of people forcibly displaced due to wars, other violence, and persecution worldwide reached a new high in 2017 to 68.5 million, 2.9 million more than the year before, according to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. Xinhua/Bilal Jawich