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Articles by Hameed Maarouf
In Syria, UNHCR’s Grandi urges more support for refugees returning home
Skip to main content UNHCR global website: Change site Close Global sites In Syria, UNHCR’s Grandi urges more support for refugees returning home Stories UN High Commissioner for Refugees marks World Refugee Day meeting Syrians going home, but warns that returns will prove short-lived without increased international assistance. 20 June 2025 A Syrian mother and her daughter pictured on their return to Syria from Lebanon at the Jdeidet Yabous border crossing on 20 June 2025.
Syrian centenarian leads his family home as returns reach half a million
Skip to main content UNHCR global website: Change site Close Global sites Syrian centenarian leads his family home as returns reach half a million Stories Great-grandfather Jassim is among more than 500,000 Syrians who have returned from neighbouring countries since the fall of the Assad regime, hoping to rebuild their homes and country despite many challenges. 16 May 2025 Jassim, a Syrian returnee, stands near the ruins of his former home in rural Al-Qusayr, Homs governorate.
UNHCR organizes first voluntary return convoy from camps in NE Syria
Skip to main content UNHCR global website: Change site Close Global sites UNHCR organizes first voluntary return convoy from camps in NE Syria Stories Families receive free transportation and other support before leaving Areesha camp after more than seven years of displacement, but funding cuts threaten UNHCR’s ability to help more Syrians return home.
As displaced Syrians return home, others wait and hope for more aid
Skip to main content UNHCR global website: Change site Close Global sites As displaced Syrians return home, others wait and hope for more aid Stories With more than 7.4 million Syrians still displaced inside the country, a lack of housing, work and services is preventing many from going home, with more international support needed to ensure returns are possible and sustainable.
Returning Syrians filled with hope despite the challenges ahead
IN the 13 years since Hassan Mohammad Alhassan fled the conflict in Syria with his family to seek safety in neighbouring Jordan, there were times when the 80-year-old patriarch must have wondered if he would ever set foot in his homeland again. But shortly after dawn on 30 January, as he boarded a bus in the Jordanian capital, Amman, bound for Homs, the years of uncertainty fell away, and he looked forward to his long-awaited return with a broad smile.
Renovating homes helps rebuild lives in northern Syria
The rehabilitation programme has reached 71 vulnerable families in Barneh so far. Optimism amid a continuing crisis During Syria’s long crisis, 13 million people have been forced to flee their homes and there remains a great deal of uncertainty following the collapse of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December.
Vital aid reaches Syrian quake survivors who - again - have lost everything
In a covered marketplace in Aleppo’s historic Old City, families sit crammed inside the small retail units, huddled together for warmth and bundled in layers of clothes and thermal blankets – their only insulation from the freezing winter temperatures currently gripping this part of northern Syria.
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