More than 900 Syrian refugees have returned to their home country from Jordan and Lebanon over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides and Refugee Migration Monitoring said on Monday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 18th February, 2019) More than 900 Syrian refugees have returned to their home country from Jordan and Lebanon over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides and Refugee Migration Monitoring said on Monday.
"Over the past 24 hours, a total of 908 refugees returned to the Syrian Arab Republic from the territory of foreign states: 108 people (33 women and 55 children) left Lebanon for Syria via the Jaydet-Yabus and Talkalakh checkpoints; 800 people (240 women and 408 children) returned from Jordan via the Nassib checkpoint," the center said in its daily bulletin.
According to the bulletin, 40 internally displaced persons have also returned home within past 24 hours.
Meanwhile, the Syrian engineering units continue mine-clearance operations. Over the past day, they found and destroyed 24 explosive devices.
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.
