Of the estimated 7 million persons displaced within Syria, only a small minority live in camps or collective shelters.

[1][2] Beside Syrians, they include Iraqis, Palestinians, Kurds, Yazidis, individuals from Somalia, and a minority of those who fled the Yemeni and Sudanese civil wars.

[5] Humanitarian aid during the Syrian Civil War focuses on basic needs, health care, education and providing jobs.

Most of the burden remains on the host countries, which face a stressed economy and export disruption, with the additional population, mostly outside of camps, causing significant pressure on public and private (e.g. housing) infrastructure.

[6] The Shelter Cluster also cites the complexity of administrative procedures and limited capacity of NGOs permitted to operate in Syria as challenges to assistance.

Only recently the situation allowed for implementing more durable solutions that included full, long-term rehabilitation of damaged houses.

[8] As of January 2017, UNRWA manages 9 shelters with about 2,600 Palestine refugees and provides cash, food and non-food items to many more.

A camp with a 20,000-person capacity in the Derik district of Mardin was inaugurated in February 2015; however in 2016, it was emptied due to security concerns.

A Turkish NGO reported several Yezidi camps and settlements in southeastern Turkey, including more than 6,000 persons, with UNHCR or other UN agencies not present in the area.

[23] In an interview with BBC in January 2017, Jordanian Chief of Staff Lieutenant, Mahmoud Freihat, claimed that there are 1 million more unregistered refugees in Jordan.

[27] At the eastern part of the border with Syria, an area known as "the berm", informal encampments have been reported in Rukban and Hadallat.

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International criticized Jordanian authorities for suspending aid to them and not allowing refugees in.

[31] At dawn on 21 June 2016, an ISIL car crossed over from Rukban on Syrian territory and managed to reach a Jordanian army outpost designated for the distribution of humanitarian aid to refugees.

The refugees in Zaatari and Azraq camps must manage with 35 liters of water a day per person, which is about 3 times less than before the conflict.

[33] Lebanon hosts about 1.5 million Syrian refugees, which amounts to more than one fourth of the total population, as of February 2017.

[41] There are 240,000 registered Syrian refugees in Iraq, 90,000 of whom reside in camps managed by UNHCR, IRC and the Directorate of Health.

[42] As of February 2017, 120,000 Syrian refugees and asylum-seekers are registered in Egypt, with 80,000 more from Sudan, Ethiopia and other African countries.

The war created the European migrant crisis, which led to hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees dispersing.

After Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, opened the door using its Open-Door Policy, in 2015, there was much excitement about the arrival of the refugees.

The non-acceptance of refugees by right-wing parties forced the government to implement integration policies to rid of some of the tensions.

Due to the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees in a short amount of time, Germany had to build emergency camps.

Statistics from a study done by the Institute for Employment Research show that the refugee unemployment rate has dropped in the past few years.