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At the United Nations Leader's Summit on Refugees on 20 September 2016, President Obama urged countries to "fulfill a moral obligation" to help the current refugee crisis, and called the circumstances of the 4.8 million refugees from Syria "particularly unacceptable".
Large-scale returns of refugees to Syria could overwhelm the country and even stoke conflict following the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad, the head of the U.N. migration agency said on Friday.
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 ...
Crisis in Venezuela: 8.9 million: Venezuela: 2014 Present 10 years [17] Syrian Civil War: 6.7 million: Syria: 2011 Present 13 years [18] Soviet–Afghan War: 6.2 million: Afghanistan: 1978 1989 11 years [19] Yemeni Civil War: 4.5 million: Yemen: 2015 Present 9 years [20] Vietnam War: 3.0 million: Mainland Southeast Asia: 1975 2000 25 years [21 ...
One million refugees are registered with UNHCR, but the figure did not change since 2015, when the government suspended further registration; entering Lebanon has become close to impossible for the remaining Syrian refugees. [36] There were 280,000 Palestinian refugees before the Syrian crisis, 32,000 more fled from Syria.
Return of refugees of the Syrian civil war is the returning to the place of origin of a Syrian refugee or an internally displaced Syrian, and sometimes a second-generation immigrant (to the ancestral place), or over-stayer, a rejected asylum seeker, who is unable or unwilling to remain in the Syrian refugee camps established in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and other countries.
In the wake of the migrant crisis in Europe, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad blamed the west for the mass migration.
However, after the outbreak of the Syrian refugee crisis since August 2011, France insists, along with the US and Britain and some Arab states, that the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad must step down, France—a former mandatory ruler of Syria—being considered by The Guardian more active and forward than the other Western countries in its ...