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Key Highlights
- As of 23 January, UNHCR estimates that 1,365,540 individuals have returned to Syria since 8
December 2024. - UNHCR provided transportation assistance and logistical support to 43 families (237 individuals)
returning to Syria through the Joussieh/Lebanon border to various destinations. Since the
beginning of 2025, UNHCR has provided assistance to over 31,500 returnees at the key border
crossing points with Türkiye and Lebanon. - UNHCR and its partners in Syria have completed the rehabilitation of the Second Commerce
School in Aleppo and that of the Female Arts School in Murak, Hama, which are expected to
equip youth with employable skills and fill industry gaps. - Since 8 December 2024, over 180,000 refugees registered with UNHCR have returned from
Jordan to Syria, including approximately 1,000 refugees this week. In 2025, UNHCR reached
over 55,000 refugees with assistance for voluntary return. - In Egypt, since the political transition in Syria, Syrians have approached UNHCR in greater
numbers to request the closure of their asylum cases – between 8 December 2024 and 12
January 2026, a total of 13,156 closure requests involving around 29,410 individuals have been
submitted. - In Syria, to support displaced populations in northeast Syria, UNHCR deployed 300 Core Relief
Item (CRI) kits and tents to Newroz camp and 1,000 CRI kits to Qamishli, in addition to distributing
CRI kits and winter items to families accommodated in collective shelters in Ar-Raqqa and Tabqa
following displacement from Aleppo.