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Regional Flash Update #60 Syria Situation (16 January 2026)

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Key Highlights

  • UNHCR estimates that 1,354,245 Syrians have returned to Syria from other countries since the political transition in the country on 8 December 2024.
  • The Governor of Latakia and UNHCR Syria Representative inaugurated the UNHCRrehabilitated Fish Market in Latakia city, in the Coastal areas where 40,000 Syrian refugees voluntarily returned in the past year.
  • There is an increase of 17% in the number of refugees registered with UNHCR who returned to Syria from Jordan compared to the previous week. To date, over 10,300 refugees have used UNHCR-provided buses to return to Syria since January 2025.
  • By the end of December 2025, 54,673 Syrian individuals known to UNHCR benefited from the facilitated return programmes, including voluntariness assessments, issuance of repatriation forms and provision of a return cash grant of USD 100 per returning individual.
  • After clashes erupted in Aleppo city between Syrian Government Forces and Syrian Democratic Forces causing displacement of thousands of families, UNHCR led protection efforts alongside essential relief, and winter assistance.