George Berkachi, a 21-year-old physical education teacher from Deir al-Ahmar, leaned up against the bars on the schoolyard’s gate, which framed the villages under assault miles below.

Temperatures in Deir al-Ahmar are dropping to 6 degrees Celsius (43 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight even before winter fully sets in and the schools have no diesel to run central heating systems.

A large majority of Deir al-Ahmar’s residents support the Lebanese Forces, a right-wing Christian political party and Hezbollah opponent that was originally an armed group that fought in Lebanon ...

Sleeping rough . Deir al-Ahmar and the surrounding villages initially hosted 12,000 displaced, mainly settled "in homes, church annexes and some still on the roads", said Rabih Saade, a member of ...

19 November 2013 Live Lebanon-UNDP in partnership with BBAC (Bank of Beirut and the Arab Countries) has unveiled another new project in the village of Deir Al Ahmar in the Bekaa Valley. The project, ...