{"id":19644,"date":"2026-03-31T03:08:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=19644"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:08:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:08:38","slug":"syria-germany-agree-on-return-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/03\/31\/syria-germany-agree-on-return-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria, Germany agree on return of hundreds of thousands of refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have agreed on a plan to facilitate the return of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, according to a report by Reuters.<br>The agreement came during al-Sharaa\u2019s one-day visit to Germany, where the two leaders discussed post-war reconstruction and migration.<br>Merz said Germany expects that around 80% of the 700,000 to 800,000 Syrians currently in the country could return to Syria over the next three years to help rebuild their homeland.<br>He added that Berlin would support Syria\u2019s reconstruction efforts and cooperate to ensure voluntary returns for those willing to go back.<br>Al-Sharaa, for his part, expressed gratitude for Germany\u2019s acceptance of Syrian refugees during the civil war, saying Damascus aims to work with Berlin on a \u201ccircular migration\u201d model allowing skilled Syrians to contribute to rebuilding efforts.<br>The developments come amid political changes in Syria after the collapse of the previous government led by Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have agreed on a plan to facilitate the return of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, according to a report by Reuters.The agreement came during al-Sharaa\u2019s one-day visit to Germany, where the two leaders discussed post-war reconstruction and migration.Merz said Germany expects that around 80% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19646,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19644\/revisions\/19646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}