UNHCR Support to Covid19 Response in Syria
Only 58% of hospitals are fully functional in Syria
COVID-19 has added more pressure on an already strained health care system.
Here are some of the ways UNHCR Syria is supporting the Covid19 response in the country.
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What do Syrians need as they return home?
16 Mar 2025In Aleppo, Syrians continue to return after 14 years of crisis. Mari is a shelter officer with UNHCR and has seen first hand what challenges many returnees face, but also their hopes for a new start.
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What you need to know the situation in Syria
16 Mar 2025Hundreds of thousands of Syrians are returning home. Since December 8, 300,000 refugees and 850,000 internally displaced people have gone back. But the challenges are immense—damaged homes, lost documents, and landmines. Now is the time to step up and support them.
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Syrians Come Home: Dispatch From Dar’a
12 Feb 2025After years of exile, Syrians are returning home to Dar’a, a city still scarred by war. They arrive to find their houses in ruins, electricity scarce, and livelihoods uncertain, but the longing for home outweighs the hardship. UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency, is providing crucial support, including shelter and documentation, […]
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من دمشق أمهات سوريات يشاركن أمنياتهن
27 Jan 2025سنوات طويلة من الصراع والأزمات والشتات عاشتها الأمهات السوريات أمنيات مؤجلة منذ ما يقارب الـ 14 عامًا هذه بعض أمنياتهن في عام 2025
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UNHCR’s Grandi meets with Syrians returning home
25 Jan 2025UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi is in Syria as part of a wider visit to the region to discuss how best to support Syrian refugees who are voluntarily returning home.
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In Their Own Words: Abd Alhameed in Aleppo, Syria
24 Jan 2025With many homes damaged or destroyed in the conflict, many displaced and retuning Syrian families are in desperate need of shelter support, especially during the winter months.
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Khaled’s story, a Syrian returnee father
15 Nov 2024Khaled & his family are among over half a million people who have crossed into Syria from Lebanon, fleeing Israeli bombardment Their story highlights the challenges Syrians returning to Syria are facing, in a country where 90% of the population needs humanitarian assistance
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UNHCR teams report from the Syria-Lebanon borders
3 Nov 2024Our teams at the Syria-Lebanon borders continue to report a very desperate situationOver 71% of arrivals to Syria are Syrian Many tell us they sold the little they had to afford the journey back home UNHCR is helping, but the needs are huge & more funding is needed
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Syria – UNHCR Representative of Syria, Mr.Gonzalo Vargas Llosa on the situation at the Syria-Lebanon border
11 Oct 2024The situation is dire for civilians devastated by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon. More than 100,000 people have crossed into Syria so far. Learn what’s happening in this update on the escalating crisis in the region and how we are responding from UNHCR’s Representatives to Lebanon and Syria.
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UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi at Lebanon-Syria border
7 Oct 2024The massive influx of Syrian and Lebanese families fleeing from Lebanon into Syria demands urgent attention from the international community. UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, urges global solidarity to ensure that those affected by airstrikes and military action in Lebanon receive the support they desperately need.