Lebanon limits entry options for Syrians

Lebanon has further tightened entry requirements for Syrians as it struggles to deal with the influx of refugees.

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Children who fled the violence in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, at an unofficial refugee camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

Lebanon has further tightened entry requirements for Syrians as it struggles to deal with the influx of refugees.

The nation is host to over a million Syrians who've fled their country's civil war, and is also home to thousands of working Syrians.

Phillippa Carisbrooke reports.

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