Over 830 Syrian refugees, including 427 minors, 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 Wednesday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 19th December, 2018) Over 830 Syrian refugees, including 427 minors, 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 Wednesday.
"Over the past day, in total 838 people returned to the Syrian Arab Republic from the territory of foreign states: 240 people (72 women and 122 children) left Lebanon for Syria via the Jaydet-Yabus and Talkalakh CPs [checkpoints], and 598 people (179 women and 305 children) from Jordan via the Nasib CP," the center said in its daily bulletin.
As many as 249 internally displaced Syrians returned to their homes over the period, the center added.
Russia has carried out a humanitarian operation in Zamalka, Damascus Province, during which local residents received 500 food sets. The Russian Chechen Republic's Akhmad Kadyrov Foundation also has held a humanitarian operation in Aleppo, delivering a tonne of bread to local residents.
Syrian engineering units, meanwhile, have destroyed 58 explosive devices, including two improvised explosive devices, over past 24 hours, the center added.
Syria, which has been suffering from an armed conflict for more than seven years, is now focused on the repatriation of refugees, who were forced to flee the armed conflict and seek asylum in other countries, and the reconstruction of infrastructure. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), over 6.6 million officially registered Syrian refugees are currently residing abroad.
