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Syria continues to face a severe humanitarian crisis, the UN estimates 7.4 million IDPs and 16.5 million people in need of aid in 2025. Security remains unstable in some parts of the country, and access to basic services is limited.
From 8 December 2024 to June 2025, after the former government’s fall, around 640,000 refugees have returned, with numbers expected to rise amid ongoing challenges.
Over 1.5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) have also returned to their places of origin since the end of November 2024.
Based on actual and projected returns and triggered by calls on UNHCR from Syrian refugees to support them to return, UNHCR has moved into the facilitation of voluntary returns to Syria.
The operational shift is gradual based on the voluntary character of return and refugees’ well-informed and free choices.
UNHCR continues to provide protection and refugees, assistance asylum-seekers, to IDPs, returnees, stateless people, and host communities based on identified needs, vulnerabilities and available resources.