A top United Nations official said on Monday that around 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home to Syria since the collapse of the Assad dictatorship in December 2024. An additional 1.7 million internally displaced persons have returned to their communities, as well.
The numbers paint a picture of long-awaited relief after a brutal 14-year war that killed almost 500,000 Syrians and displaced half of the country’s total population. Around five million of those displaced persons fled Syria during the war.
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Ethnic and sectarian violence has continued to boil over in different parts of the country, and some refugees and survivors say that they plan on waiting longer to see how things develop before making a decision on whether or not to return to Syria.
