UN says one million Syrians may return in first half of 2025

The UN said on Tuesday that it expects about one million people to return to Syria in the first half of 2025, following the collapse of president Bashar Al Assad’s rule. “We have forecasted that we hope to see somewhere in the order of one million Syrians returning between January and June of next year,” Rema Jamous Imseis, the Middle East and North Africa director for the UN refugee agency UNHCR, told a press briefing in Geneva.