TRIPOLI: The United Nations’ migration agency on Thursday said it had flown home 152 Syrians from Libya, in the first such flight from the North African country this year.
The International Organization for Migration “on Wednesday facilitated the voluntary return of 152 Syrians in vulnerable situations from Libya to Damascus,” the agency said in a statement.
This marked “the first Voluntary Humanitarian Return (VHR) flight to Syria organized by IOM since the beginning of 2025,” it added.
War since 2011 had devastated Syria, displacing millions both inside the country and abroad.
Over one million Syrian refugees have returned from abroad since the fall of longtime ruler Bashar Assad last December, according to the UN.
