Syrian refugees in Iraq begin the journey home - USA for UNHCR

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Khalid and Wedad receive counselling from UNHCR at their initial return interview. Khalid and Wedad started their marriage with a border between them. When their families agreed the match, Khalid was already in Iraq. He had fled Lattakia, on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, in 2021. “It was not safe in Syria because of the war,” he says. Six months later, in 2022, Wedad followed. She arrived in Baghdad to begin her married life, leaving behind her parents, her sisters and career. A university graduate in engineering, she had been working as a primary school teacher in Syria. The couple married in …