Lebanon's UN refugee agency chief hopes at least 200,000 Syrian refugees return under new plan

Washington Post

2 days ago

BEIRUT — The UN refugee agency's representative in Lebanon said Thursday he hopes that at least 200,000 Syrian refugees return from Lebanon by the end of the year under a new government-backed return plan.
Before former President Bashar Assad was ousted in a lightning insurgent offensive in December, only about 1% of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon said they were planning to return, UNHCR's outgoing Lebanon Representative Ivo Freijsen said.