But the stream of returnees may grow over the coming year as stability returns to Syria and as hostility grows to refugees in host nations. An estimate 6.1 million Syrians still in the country are displaced from their homes — so refugees are not the only ones waiting to go back. Turkey, home to 3.5 million Syrian refugees, seized a pocket of territory in northwest Syria along the countries’ shared border last year. From Jordan, home to 650,000 refugees, only around 8,000 Syrians returned home in all of 2017, according to UNHCR figures. One woman, Umm Wissam, told The Associated Press she returned to Syria in August after six years in Jordan.

Source: Egypt Independent February 02, 2018 10:30 UTC