Current data on Syrian refugee camps in neighboring countries. Sept. 6, 2013— -- The United States is gearing up to launch a small-scale military strike on Syria in response to President Bashar ...

In the six months since Bashar al-Assad was deposed as the country's dictator, refugees have been returning in their thousands to Syria. Over the course of the nearly 15-year civil war, more than 13.5 ...

GENEVA, 17 August (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency on Friday reported a sharp rise in the number of Syrians fleeing to Turkey and Jordan, with the total number of Syrian refugees registered in ...

Fleeing a civil war, Syria's refugees have nearly doubled in the past year. — -- The number of Syrians fleeing their war-torn homeland for neighboring countries has passed the 4 million mark, ...

Aug. 10, 2025 Updated Sun., Aug. 10, 2025 at 1:46 p.m. Residents ride past the ruins of buildings in Yarmouk, Syria, on March 14. Once the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, Yarmouk was home ...

As we look back at our international reporters' most memorable stories of the last year, we revisit a report from a remote corner of southeastern Syria near the border with Jordan.  There some 7,000 ...

Damascus, November 17, 2025 — The fall of the Assad-led government reignited long-deferred hopes among many Syrian refugees that returning home might finally be possible. Despite tangible steps toward ...

Around a quarter of Syria's population has fled since the March 2011 start of a conflict that has killed over 320,000 people. More than five million Syrians are now refugees, the UN said Thursday, as ...

As I prepare to step down after a decade as high commissioner for refugees, I see not only conflicts and emergencies ...