2025-11-09T22:30:05+00:00

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Shafaq News
– Damascus

A total of
292 Iraqi and Syrian families left al-Hol Camp in northeastern Syria in
October, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Sunday.

According to
SOHR, the departures, coordinated by the Autonomous Administration of North and
East Syria (AANES) and theUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), are part of a
voluntary return program to ease overcrowding and repatriate ISIS-linked
families.

249 Iraqi
families—about 840 people—were sent to al-Jadaa Camp in Iraq’s Nineveh
Province, while 43 Syrian families (188 people) returned to Aleppo, Latakia,
Palmyra, and Daraa. The AANES Foreign Relations Office also handed over five
women and 12 children to a South African delegation, the Observatory added.

#المرصد_السوريخلال تشرين الأول الفائت.. 292 عائلة #سورية و #عراقية تغادر #مخيم_الهول ووفد #أفريقي يتسلّم 17 شخصاً من عوائل “الـ ـتـ ـنـ ـظـ ـيـ ـم”https://t.co/ae26xd9Kz7

— المرصد السوري لحقوق الإنسان (@syriahr) November 9, 2025

Earlier in
the month, 28 families (133 people) left Mahmoudli Camp in Raqqa’s Tabqa area
for home provinces, and 15 families (55 people) departed al-Hol for Aleppo
under UNHCR supervision.

Founded in
1991 for Iraqi refugees and expanded after 2003, al-Hol Camp became one of the
largest displacement sites after ISIS’s 2019 defeat, housing over 60,000
people, mostly women and children.

The camp’s
overcrowding and security challenges have drawn global concern, prompting
ongoing UNHCR–AANES–Iraq cooperation to facilitate safe returns and reduce its
population.

Read more: Security concerns resurface following ISIS families’ relocation from al-Hol Camp