Apprehension in Turkey’s labor market as Syrians return home
As Syrians return home, Turkey is losing cheap labor and small businesses, sparking apprehension about the future of the country’s labor market.
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05, 2025
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04, 2025
‘Afrin belongs to its people’: More Kurds return to Afrin, while others wait for guarantees
Returns to Afrin increased following agreements between the SDF and Damascus, with some villages seeing more than 80 percent of their displaced Kurdish residents return. Others are waiting for an organized return with security guarantees.
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04, 2025
Aid cuts deepen waste and water crisis in Syria’s northern camps
Aid cuts have deepened a water and sanitation crisis impacting hundreds of internal displacement camps in northwestern Syria, where humanitarian organizations have long provided essential services.
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03, 2025
Thousands of Alawites seek refuge in Lebanon, where locals lead the response
Thousands of Alawites have fled to Lebanon following sectarian killings on the Syrian coast. Local residents are springing into action, while some fear a spillover of violence.
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02, 2025
Syrians continue to flock to Lebanon after the regime’s fall
Despite an improved political and security situation in many parts of Syria, tens of thousands of Syrians have continued to flock to Lebanon since the Assad regime fell last December.
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01, 2025
In Syria’s ‘barrel bomb capital’ Darayya, housing crisis stalls return
Around 25,000 people have returned to Darayya, just south of Damascus, since the regime fell. Destruction and a worsening housing crisis prevents the return of others to the battered city, home to 350,000 people before 2011.
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01, 2025
Zaatari camp’s economy collapses with the fall of the Assad regime
The Zaatari refugee camp’s bustling economy ground to a halt when the Assad regime fell. Local shopkeepers say the value of their businesses has collapsed as residents uncertain about their future in Jordan save money and only buy necessities.
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01, 2025
Tens of thousands return to Afrin while fear of abuses keeps others away
Since Turkish-backed factions took control of northern Aleppo at the start of December, more than 70,000 displaced people have returned to Afrin and its countryside, while others fled to northeastern Syria fearing abuses.
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01, 2025
Relatively few Syrians in Jordan risk one-way trip home
Only 3,106 Syrian refugees out of 717,000 registered with the UN in Jordan have returned to Syria since Assad fell, as crossing the border is a one-way trip to a country that is not yet stable.
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12, 2024
‘Systematic’ destruction keeps Homs’ displaced from returning home
Elation at the hope of returning home after Assad fell turned to shock for displaced Homs residents who found massive destruction and nonexistent services in areas they fled. Many turned back to northwestern Syria, waiting for reconstruction.