Hundreds of Syrian refugees have left the remote Lebanese mountain town of Arsal in a convoy of trucks headed for the northern border on the first day of a controversial repatriation scheme.
Lebanese authorities say 751 Syrian refugees began returning to Syria on Wednesday under a voluntary programme coordinated by Lebanon\u2019s General Security, the agency responsible for safeguarding the country\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hundreds of Syrian refugees have left the remote Lebanese mountain town of Arsal in a convoy of trucks headed for the northern border on the first day of a controversial repatriation scheme.Lebanese authorities say 751 Syrian refugees began returning to Syria on Wednesday under a voluntary programme coordinated by Lebanon\u2019s General Security, the agency responsible …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":86995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[57,385,41],"class_list":["post-86994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lebanon","tag-lebanon","tag-refugees","tag-syria"],"yoast_head":"\n