UNHCR Syria Operational Update (June-July 2025)

The UN estimates that in 2025 around 16.5 million people across Syria need humanitarian assistance. Since the fall of the former government on 8 December 2024 until the end of July 2025, over 746,300 Syrian refugees had returned to the country from abroad, and the number of returnees is expected to continue rising.

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 voluntary character of return and refugees’ well-informed and free choices. 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.

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