1.6 million Syrians return Home, limited numbers return from Germany

According to UN data, approximately 1.6 million Syrian refugees have returned to their country since the fall of the Ba'ath regime in Syria at the end of 2014.

1.6 million Syrians return Home, limited numbers return from Germany
2 May, 2026   19:53
NEWS DESK

The newspaper "Welt am Sonntag," scheduled for publication tomorrow, Sunday, reported, based on figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), that as of April 16, 2016, 634,000 Syrians had returned from Turkey, 621,000 from Lebanon, and 284,000 from Jordan to their homeland.

According to the report, Germany is not listed separately in the UNHCR data, but rather within the category of "other countries," which includes approximately 6,100 returnees.

According to data from the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, published last February, 3,678 Syrian refugees voluntarily returned to their country from Germany during the past year alone. More than 900,000 Syrians live in Germany.

ANHA