Since the fall of Bashar Assad’s government in December, some 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from neighboring countries and the figure could reach 1 million in the coming weeks, a top official with the U.N. refugee agency said Monday.

Syria's conflict that began in March 2011 has killed nearly half a million people and displaced half the country's pre-war population of 23 million{ai:summary}Since the fall of Bashar Assad’s government in December, about 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from neighboring countries.The figure could reach 1 million in coming weeks, a top UNHCR official said Monday. #foreignaffairs

850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home since Assad’s fall, UN says

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