{"id":50066,"date":"2025-01-19T11:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T11:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=50066"},"modified":"2025-01-19T11:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T11:11:49","slug":"nearly-200000-syrian-refugees-return-home-following-assads-ousting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/nearly-200000-syrian-refugees-return-home-following-assads-ousting\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 200,000 Syrian refugees return home following Assad&#8217;s ousting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-716\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Syria.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Syria.jpg 421w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Syria-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>Since the ousting of Bashar Assad in early December, nearly 200,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their homeland, according to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi. Between December 8 and January 16, approximately 195,200 Syrians made their way back. Grandi announced plans to visit Syria and neighboring countries to bolster UNHCR&#8217;s support for returnees and host communities. Prior to Assad&#8217;s fall, many Syrians had already returned, fleeing Lebanon amid Israeli-Hezbollah conflicts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/nearly-200000-syrian-refugees-return-home-following-assads-ousting\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the ousting of Bashar Assad in early December, nearly 200,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their homeland, according to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi. Between December 8 and January 16, approximately 195,200 Syrians made their way back. Grandi announced plans to visit Syria and neighboring countries to bolster UNHCR&#8217;s support for returnees &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50067,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50066\/revisions\/50067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}