UNHCR: 250k Syrian Refugees Could Return Home In 2019

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Up to 250,000 Syrian refugees could return to their devastated homeland in 2019, while many others face problems with documentation and property that Damascus must help resolve, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said Tuesday.

Meanwhile, some 5.6 million Syrian refugees remain in neighboring countries – Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq – Amin Awad, UNHCR director for the Middle East and North Africa, told a news briefing.

Some 37,000 have returned this year, according to UNHCR figures.

"We are forecasting in this phase up to 250,000 Syrians go back in 2019. That figure can go up and down according to the pace with which we are working and removing these obstacles to return," Awad said.

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