MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 06th June, 2019) More than 2,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their home country from neighboring 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 Thursday.
"Over the past day, in total 2,011 people returned to the Syrian Arab Republic from the territory of foreign states: 286 people (52 women and 89 children) left Lebanon for Syria via the Jaydet-Yabus and Talkalakh CPs [checkpoints], and 1,725 people (326 women and 553 children) from Jordan via the Nasib CP," the military said in its daily bulletin.
According to the center, over 252,000 Syrians have returned home from abroad since July 2018. Moreover, seven Syrians have returned to their places of permanent residence in the Arab republic over the past day, the center added.
Syrian engineering units have removed mines from 3.2 hectares (7.9 acres) of land, destroying 57 explosive devices in the provinces of Deraa and Damascus, the center said.
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.
