The Need to Continue Protecting Syrian Refugees

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Hundreds of families have fled the eastern countryside of Idlib and western Aleppo, Syria, November 27, 2024. © 2024 Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via AP Photo The sudden escalation of fighting in Syria, as armed groups make serious advancements, carries an important lesson about refugee protection. For the past several years, governments in Europe and the Middle East have increasingly been itching to send Syrian refugees home, arguing that the fighting is over and it’s safe for them to return – despite international legal obligations and the reality on the ground in…

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