The return of the second group, which the Afrin–Shehba Displaced Persons Council had previously announced would return to Afrin on 12 March, has been postponed. The group included 200 families who were supposed to return to the Rajo district and the center of Afrin.
No official statement has been made regarding why the return of the families was postponed.
The first group of forcibly displaced Afrin families had set out from Hasakah on 9 March and reached Afrin on 10 March. It was reported that the first group, consisting of 400 families from the Afrin districts of Mabata, Jindires, and Shiye, arrived safely at their homes.
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