Homeward Bound: Syrians Return After Regime Shift
More than 170,000 Syrian refugees have left Turkey and returned to their home country.
More than 170,000 Syrian refugees have left Turkey and returned to their home country.
European leaders have celebrated the “positive and long-awaited development,” but peace ise not guaranteed to follow.
After the recent right-wing electoral streak, there’s never been a greater will to clamp down on migration across Europe.
There is no end in sight for Western sanctions against Damascus as Syrian Catholic bishops warned that the current restrictions were hampering aid efforts and endangering Syrian Christians.
For Washington, which has tried to oust President Assad since 2011, the development constitutes yet another foreign policy failure in the region.