CAIRO, July 21st (SEE) - Up to 750,000 internally displaced Syrians and about 13,000 Syrian refugees returned to their homes in the first six months of 2018, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency said in a statement on Friday.
The internally displaced people arrived home in in Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Rural Damascus, Damascus, south-west and north-eastern Syria.
"An estimated 140,000 people remain displaced across the south-west and need safe passage out of the area, plus immediate humanitarian assistance, protection and shelter," the statement read.
The UNHCR urged all parties in Syria to protect and provide safe passage to civilians displaced by the recent fighting in the south of the country.
The UN agency expressed readiness for discussing with the Syrian and Russian authorities concerning setting up of a center in Syria to help refugees who return home.
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