DISPLACEMENT

After twelve years of conflict, Syria remains home to one of the world’s largest refugee crises in recent history. More than 13 million Syrians have been forced to flee their homes since 2011. 6.8 million fled across the borders to neighboring countries, with more than 3.6 million Syrian refugees escaping to Turkey. About 851,000 Syrian refugees are in Lebanon, where they currently make up more than 14 percent of Lebanon’s population. 668,332 are in Jordan, 346,000 are in Iraq, and about 133,568 refugees are in Egypt.

+900,000 IDPs are living in tents

Of IDP live in tents

Of camps are self- reliant

6.7 Million people remain internally displaced, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC). Most of these refugees were forcibly relocated from cities and villages all across Syria to the Northern half of the country, towards Idlib and its suburbs, and across the border from Turkey. 2.5 million of the 6.7 million internally displaced Syrians; fled to the “Northern Syria Buffer Zone” established on the Syrian side of the Syria–Turkey border in August 2019 to maintain security along the border.