Over 15 million people returned home in 2025, highest ever

According to UN statistics, nearly 15 million migrants returned to their home countries in 2025, marking the largest wave of repatriation on record.

Hiam, 37, told Al Jazeera: "Returning is beautiful in the sense of coming back to one's homeland, but it is exhausting physically, emotionally, financially, and mentally because everything has changed."

Hiam is one of more than 3 million migrants who have returned to Syria since the fall of the al-Assad regime in 2024.

Marking World Refugee Day on June 20, Al Jazeera highlights those returning home and the conditions they face.