Since the overthrow: UNHCR: A million refugees returned to Syria

According to the UN, one million people have already returned to the civil war nine months after the fall of long-term power holder Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Since the beginning of December of the previous year, 1.8 million domestic people who have been displaced in their home areas have also been returned to their home areas, it was said by the UN refugee agency UNHCR in Geneva.

According to the UNHCR, the returnees are faced with destroyed houses, damaged infrastructure, too few jobs and an unstable security situation. UN Refugee High Commissioner Filippo Grandi asked the community of states, the private sector and abroad to support the reconstruction of the country more.

Still millions of displaced persons

“We have the rare opportunity to solve one of the largest refugee crises in the world,” said Grandi. According to UNHCR, more than seven million people are still living in Syria as an inland. And more than 4.5 million continue to live as refugees abroad. The vast majority of the Syrian refugees, which was recorded in Arab countries, want to return to UNHCR according to the UNHCR survey data.

Al-Assad was overthrown in December after long years of the civil war. In the meantime, the country is led by a transitional government with around 23 million inhabitants led by Interim President Al-Sharaa. Al-Sharaa was the head of the Islamist group Haiat Tahrir al-Scham (HTS), which cited the rebel alliance, which Assad finally fell.