MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 23rd November, 2018) More than 800 Syrian refugees have returned to their home country from Jordan and Lebanon over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for the Reception, Allocation and Accommodation of Refugees said on Friday.
"Over the past day, a total of 801 people returned to the Syrian Arab Republic from the territory of foreign states: 215 people (64 women and 111 children) left Lebanon for Syria via the Jaydet-Yabus and Talkalakh CPs [checkpoints], and 586 people (176 women and 299 children) from Jordan via the Nasib CP," the center said in its daily bulletin.
The center added that over 224 internally displaced Syrians had returned to their homes in Eastern Ghouta, Deir ez-Zor and Damascus provinces over the period.
According to the bulletin, the Syrian engineering units also defused 42 explosive devices, including two improvised explosive devices, in the country.
As the Syrian government has regained control over most of the country's territories that were seized by terrorists, it is now focused on creating favorable conditions for repatriating refugees. Moscow is assisting Damascus in this process, along with providing humanitarian aid to civilians and being a guarantor of the ceasefire.
