More than 7,000 Syrians in Jordan return to their country after al-Assad’s fall

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Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad‘s regime, 7,250 Syrians have returned to their country through the Jordanian border, according to Jordan’s Interior Minister, who reported this on Thursday night. He believes that the ongoing changes in Syria will lead to the return of refugees, thus easing the burden on neighboring countries.

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Minister Mazen al-Faraya stated to the official “Al-Mamlaka” channel that “the number of Syrians who crossed into Syria through the Jaber-Nasib crossing (the only operational border point between the two countries) from December 8th until now is 7,250 Syrians,” adding that “the majority of those returning are not classified as refugees.”

Amman claims to host more than 1.3 million Syrian refugees since the conflict erupted in 2011. According to the United Nations, there are approximately 680,000 registered Syrian refugees in Jordan.

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The Jordanian Interior Minister stated on December 9th that “conditions are now largely favorable” for Syrian refugees to return to their country after the fall of al-Assad’s regime, pointing out that “refugees may need a few days or weeks before they begin returning.”

On Thursday morning, a photographer observed dozens of taxis transporting Syrians crossing the Jaber-Nasib border crossing, about 80 kilometers west of Amman.

Commercial traffic between Jordan and Syria resumed after a two-week hiatus caused by Jordan’s decision to close the border due to “security concerns.”

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Jordan’s Minister of Industry and Trade, Yarub Qudah, told journalists at the Jaber-Nasib crossing on Thursday that “about 500 trucks have crossed from Jordan into Syria in the past three days, and around 150 trucks have crossed from Syria into other countries via Jordan during this period.”

Jordan had decided to close the Jaber crossing, the only active border point with Syria, on December 6th, two days before the fall of al-Assad’s regime, due to “security conditions” in Syria.

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) revealed this week that one million Syrians are expected to return to Syria in the first half of 2025.

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Reema Jamous Emseis, the UNHCR’s Middle East and North Africa Director, stated that many refugees have already returned “spontaneously” to Syria from Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan.

She emphasized that more than seven million people have already been displaced within Syria and that more than 90% of the population requires humanitarian assistance to survive.

The UNHCR has also issued a plan for Syria, aiming to raise “310 million dollars to meet the urgent needs of up to one million returning Syrian refugees expected to return to Syria between January and June 2025, as part of spontaneous and organized movements by the host governments of neighboring countries.”

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