Regional Flash Update #48 Syria Situation (10 October 2025)

Key Highlights

• Since 8 December 2024, a total of 1,099,768 individuals have returned to Syria from other countries while 1,880,432 internally displaced persons (IDPs) have returned to areas of origin or selected locations.
• On 7 October in Idleb Governorate, northwest Syria, UNHCR, in coordination with the Governorate and the Directorate of Social Affairs and Labor, facilitated the first voluntary return of internally displaced persons from the region, with 165 households (689 individuals) returning from 21 camps in the Dana area to their areas of origin.
• A total of 163 refugees returned to Syria from Lebanon under the joint programme coordinated by UNHCR Syria, UNHCR and IOM Lebanon, and Syria’s General Authority for Land and Sea Ports.
• Up to 191 families (963 individuals) received transportation and logistical support from Joussieh border crossing point to destinations including Hama, Homs, Idlib, Aleppo and Damascus.
• Between 7 and 9 October, UNHCR facilitated the transportation of 150 refugees from Jordan to Syria. Overall, since the start of the transportation initiative on 20 January 2025, UNHCR has supported nearly 9,700 refugees to return to Syria.
• During the opening of the new academic year in Trabzon, Turkiye, Council of Higher Education (YÖK) President Prof. Erol Özvar announced, on 6 October, plans to establish the Türkiye–Syria Friendship University in Damascus.

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