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SYRIA: ‘Over 600,000 displaced Syrians returned home so far this year – UN agency’, UN News Centre, 11 August 2017

More than 600,000 displaced Syrians returned home in the first seven months of 2017, the United Nations migration agency and partners have found. Findings by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and partners indicate that 84 per cent of the people returning had been displaced within Syria, and the rest returned from Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. Refugees returning from Turkey and Jordan reportedly returned mainly to Aleppo and Al Hasakeh Governorates. 'Over 600,000 displaced Syrians returned home so far this year - UN agency', UN News Centre, 11 August 2017

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