Over 1,000 Syrians returned home 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 Tuesday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 21st May, 2019) Over 1,000 Syrians returned home 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 Tuesday.
"Over the past day, in total 1,020 people returned to the Syrian Arab Republic from the territory of foreign states: 381 people ([including] 122 women and 207 children) left Lebanon for Syria via the Jaydet-Yabus and Talkalakh CPs [checkpoints], and 639 people ([including] 192 women and 326 children) from Jordan via the Nasib CP," the center said in its daily bulletin.
The center added that as many as 20 internally displaced Syrians had returned to their places of permanent residence in the country over the given period.
According to the bulletin, the Syrian engineering units cleared of mines 3.6 hectares (8.8 acres) of land and destroyed 35 explosive devices over the past 24 hours.
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.
