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The UN estimates that in 2025, 16.5 million people across Syria need humanitarian assistance.
Since the political transition in December 2024 until the end of December 2025, over 1.3 million Syrians have returned home from countries of asylum and around 2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) have returned to their places of origin or preferred destinations in Syria.
Based on actual and projected return numbers and in response to calls from Syrian refugees for UNHCR to support their return, UNHCR is facilitating voluntary return to the country.
This gradual operational shift is anchored in the voluntary character of return and refugees’ well-informed and free choices.
This effort, however, remains constrained by challenges, including funding shortfalls, limited absorption capacity in areas of return, access restrictions, and the extensive scale of humanitarian needs.
UNHCR continues to provide protection and assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, IDPs, returnees, stateless people, and host communities based on identified needs, vulnerabilities and available resources.