MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 16th December, 2018) Around 1,000 Syrian refugees, mostly children, 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 Sunday.
"Over the past 24 hours, a total of 998 refugees returned to the Syrian Arab Republic from the territory of foreign states: 267 people (80 women and 137 children) left Lebanon for Syria via the Jaydet-Yabus and Talkalakh checkpoints, and 731 people (219 women and 373 children) returned from Jordan via the Nassib checkpoint," the center said in its daily bulletin.
At the same time, a total of 230 internally displaced persons returned to their homes.
Several humanitarian actions took place in the province of Aleppo and Homs, the bulletin added.
The Syrian engineering units have cleared of mines 9.6 hectares of land and 2.1 kilometer (1.3 miles) of roads, destroying 43 explosive devices, the center said.
The Russian side has been assisting Syria throughout the war, providing military and humanitarian aid and brokering ceasefire agreements. Damascus has already won back vast territories that got into the hands terrorists and rebels during the war, and the armed conflict itself seems to be nearing its end, which prompted Syria to start the reconstruction process and the repatriation of refugees.
