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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 ...
According to the United States Department of State Refugee Admissions Report dated December 2016, the US admitted 1,682 Syrian refugees in Fiscal Year 2015 (year ending Sept 2015), 12,587 in FY 2016 (15% of total worldwide refugee admissions into the US in FY 2016) and 3,566 Syrian refugees for the period October through December 2016.
On December 8, 2024, Syrian opposition forces captured Damascus after Bashar al-Assad's forces withdrew and subsequently announced the collapse of Assad's regime. There remain millions of Syrian refugees who are displaced into refugee camps across the region, under severe conditions.
On the same day, SDF arrested two ISIS members from a refugee camp, with weapons and grenades also discovered in the camp. [ 18 ] The SOHR reported that at least 359 people were killed in Syria during January 2024.
A U.N. humanitarian official appealed Friday for more than $4 billion in life-saving aid for more than 10 million Syrians, saying that the country's largely forgotten crisis remains “one of the ...
Cyprus appealed on Wednesday for vigorous action from the EU to stem a recent tide of mostly Syrian refugees arriving by sea via Lebanon, saying the island's reception capacity was at breaking point.
Syrian refugees in Paris, London, Stockholm, Helsinki and Athens took part in public celebrations. [28] Thousands of Syrians in Berlin, Germany, congregated along streets to celebrate the overthrow. In Neukölln , celebrators brought out the flag of the Syrian opposition and marched to Kreuzberg .
As part of Turkey's migrant crisis, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in 2018 Turkey was hosting 63% of all of the Syrian refugees in the world. [40] More than a third of the refugees are hosted in Southeastern Turkey , near the Syria-Turkey border .