Up to one million displaced in Syria amid opposition offensive: UN

The UN Refugee Agency (Unhcr) estimates that between 800,000 and one million people have been displaced within Syria since opposition forces began their offensive to overthrow Bashar al-Assad.

Of this total, approximately 150,000 people are experiencing “secondary displacement,” according to the agency.

Unhcr reported that nearly half of the displaced population consists of women and girls.

“The security situation in Aleppo, Idlib, Hama, Homs, and Damascus remains dynamic. There are multiple overlapping population movements, including major internal displacement within Syria, some internally displaced persons returning home, movements out of Syria, and relatively small numbers of refugee returns,” it said.