Data received from UNHCR's offices in the Syria region shows that the number of Syrians either registered as refugees or being assisted as such has now reached the one million mark. "With a million ...

Around a quarter of Syria's population has fled since the March 2011 start of a conflict that has killed over 320,000 people. More than five million Syrians are now refugees, the UN said Thursday, as ...

Damascus, November 17, 2025 — The fall of the Assad-led government reignited long-deferred hopes among many Syrian refugees that returning home might finally be possible. Despite tangible steps toward ...

Close to 1.5 million Syrian refugees have voluntarily returned to their home country over the past year. That extraordinary figure represents nearly one-quarter of all Syrians who fled fighting during ...

As we look back at our international reporters' most memorable stories of the last year, we revisit a report from a remote corner of southeastern Syria near the border with Jordan. There some 7,000 ...

Close to 1.5 million Syrian refugees have voluntarily returned to their home country over the past year. That extraordinary figure represents nearly one-quarter of all Syrians who fled fighting during ...

The U.N. refugee agency in Lebanon says the U.S. lifting sanctions on Syria could encourage more refugees to return BEIRUT -- The head of the U.N. refugee agency in Lebanon said Thursday that the move ...

BEIRUT (AP) — The move by the United States to lift sweeping sanctions on Syria could encourage more refugees to return to their country and also help encourage investments, the head of the U.N.

Last week, German chancellor Friedrich Merz announced that it is time for Syrian refugees in his country to return home. An estimated 1.3 million refugees have arrived in Germany since Syria’s civil ...

BEIRUT — The move by the United States to lift sweeping sanctions on Syria could encourage more refugees to return to their country and also help encourage investments, the head of the U.N. refugee ...