Children, displaced due to the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, try to get warm with a campfire under the harsh winter conditions in makeshift tent camp in Idlib, Syria on December 23, 2023. [İzettin Kasım - Anadolu Agency]
Children, displaced due to the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, try to get warm with a campfire under the harsh winter conditions in makeshift tent camp in Idlib, Syria on December 23, 2023. [İzettin Kasım – Anadolu Agency]
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Spokesperson Celine Schmitt shared on Friday: “Up to one million internally displaced people (IDPs) living in camps and displacement sites across northwest Syria intend to return to their areas of origin within the next year, 600,000 of them in the next six months.”
This statement was made during the weekly press conference of the UN Office in Geneva, in which Schmitt disclosed data related to a survey on the displaced in northwestern Syria.
She explained that nearly one million people living in camps and areas where the displaced reside in northwestern Syria are planning to return to their homes this year.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), affiliated with the UN, announced that around 750,000 internally displaced people have already returned to their places of origin in Syria since November 2024. However, about seven million remain displaced.
The report indicated that internal displacement cases have witnessed a significant decline since the fall of the Bashar Al-Assad regime in December 2024.
It noted the increasing pace of Syrians returning to their country after the fall of the Al-Assad regime.
On 8 December, 2024, Syrian factions extended their control over Damascus following other cities, ending 61 years of the violent Ba’ath Party regime and 53 years of Al-Assad family rule.
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