"Returning was beautiful in the sense of going back to one’s country, but it was very exhausting physically, emotionally, financially, and mentally, because everything has changed," 37-year-old Hiam tells Al Jazeera.
She is one of more than three million displaced people to return to Syria since the fall of the al-Assad regime in 2024.
As the world marks World Refugee Day on June 20, Al Jazeera looks at who is going home and the conditions they are returning to.
