Attachments
15 August 2025
Key Highlights
- As of 14 August 2025, UNHCR estimates that 779,473 Syrians have crossed back to Syria via neighboring countries since 8 December 2024.
- At the same time, IDP returns continue, with 1,694,418 internally displaced persons (IDPs) having returned to their homes in Syria, including 828,841 returning from IDP sites since 8 December 2024, according to the latest data of the IDP Task Force.
- Between 6 and 12 August, UNHCR Syria continued to facilitate the safe and dignified return of Syrian refugees to their areas of origin, providing transportation and other logistical support at the Bab AlHawa, Al-Salama, and Joussieh border crossing points, and reaching 318 families — 776 individuals this week alone.
- During the same period, inside Syria, UNHCR supported returnees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) with the distribution of full Core Relief Item (CRI) kits, reaching 2,370 households (15,358 individuals). The majority of recipients (13,189 individuals) were returnees, while over 1,700 were displaced by the situation in As-Sweida.
- As of 9 August, more than 133,000 refugees registered with UNHCR have returned from Jordan to
Syria since 8 December 2024. Since the last report, nearly 6,700 refugees returned, representing a
29 per cent increase compared to some 4,750 refugees who had returned the previous week. - In Iraq, over the past week, the return of registered Syrian refugees through Peshkhabour border
crossing point increased compared to the previous week (from 421 individuals to 565 individuals).