UN registers over 15,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon last week

UN refugee agency said Sunday it registered more than 15,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon last week, with the number of refugees receiving aid from the agency and its parnters amouting to 762,000. More than 622,000 Syrian refugees are registered with the UNHCR and around 104,000 others awaiting registration, it said in its weekly report. It noted that 34 percent of refugees live in Bekaa areas, 33 percent in the north, 18 percent in Beirut and Mount Lebanon and 13 percent in the south. The UN agency said the number of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries exceeded two million this week. Syrians have fled from their country due to the bloody conflict that began in March 2011 and killed more than 100,000 people, as well as displacing many others.