More than 300,000 refugees return to Syria since Assad's fall: UN

More than 300,000 refugees have returned to Syria since president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown, the United Nations said Friday.

"Since December 8... we've now crossed the 300,000 returns," said Celine Schmitt of the UN refugee agency UNHCR, adding that another 900,000 people who had been internally displaced inside Syria had also returned home since the end of November.