Fleeing war, repression, and economic breakdown in their home country, Syrians have become the largest group of refugees in the Middle East. Relative to their own population, neighboring Jordan and Lebanon have hosted the most Syrians per capita. While both are small, middle-income, and…
As of the end of 2019, the regime under President Bashar al-Assad, along with Russia and Iran, controls almost three-quarters of Syrian territory. Despite ongoing fighting for the last-remaining rebel stronghold of Idlib as well as fragmented territorial control in the north-east, the war in Syria has been decided militarily.
More than six million people live as internally displaced persons in Syria, and over five million have fled abroad - most to Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. In recent years, humanitarian protection for refugees in the main host countries of the Middle East seem to be shrinking.
