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A U.N. refugee agency official said on Tuesday that some 1 million Syrian refugees are expected to return to the country in the first six months of 2025, asking states to refrain from forcing them ...
Lebanon – As of October 2016, Lebanon hosted 1.5 million Syrian refugees according to Lebanese government estimates, while as of July 2019, the number of officially registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon dropped to less than 1 million, according to official accounts of the UNHCR's Syria Regional Refugee Response, [154] half of them children ...
In December 2024, the factions supported by Turkey announced they would discontinue the ceasefire with groups supported by the US, such as Syrian Democratic Forces. One news article noted: "The SNA, an umbrella of several armed factions, informed the SDF on Monday that it would be returning to 'a state of combat against us,' one of the sources ...
On 20 November 2024, the Israeli Air Force conducted an airstrike on residential buildings and an industrial area in Palmyra in central Syria.According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the strikes killed at least 108 people, including 73 Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen and 29 foreign Iranian-backed militiamen, mostly members of the Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba of Iraq, as well as 15 ...
On the same day, ISIS executed 8 soldiers of the Syrian Army's 11th Armoured Division after contact with them was lost on March 26, in Kabajib area, while they were heading from Al-Sukhnah to Deir Ezzor. [90] The SOHR reported that at least 514 people were killed in Syria during March 2024. [91]
3 July – Investigators in Germany and Sweden arrested eight suspects allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government over alleged participation in crimes against humanity in Syria. [ 23 ] 4 July – The Islamic State kills eight people, including two civilians, in an ambush on pro-government militiamen in the Badiya desert .
The riots ended up fueling violence in Syria itself, particularly in Aleppo, where protestors attacked Turkish military bases and took down Turkish flags. [ 15 ] On 20 January 2025, Ümit Özdağ , the leader of the Turkish far-right Victory Party , was arrested on charges of insulting President Erdoğan and inciting violence on social media ...
Furthermore, nearly 30,000 Syrian refugees were forcibly deported from Turkey in 2023 and subjected to inhumane treatment, according to the Syrians for Truth and Justice Institute. [ 2 ] In a speech on 28 June 2024, Turkish President Erdoğan expressed his willingness to restore relations with the Syrian government under Bashar al-Assad ...