Nearly 1,000 Syrians Return Home From Abroad Over Past 24 Hours - Russian Defense Ministry

Almost 1,000 Syrian refugees 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 Saturday.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 05th January, 2019) Almost 1,000 Syrian refugees 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 Saturday.

"Over the past day, in total 997 people returned to the Syrian Arab Republic from the territory of foreign states: 448 people (135 women and 228 children) left Lebanon for Syria via the Jaydet-Yabus and Talkalakh CPs [checkpoints], and 549 people (165 women and 280 children) from Jordan via the Nasib CP," the center said in its daily bulletin.

The center added that 166 internally displaced Syrians had returned to their homes over the given period.

According to the bulletin, the Syrian engineering units also defused 30 explosive devices in the provinces of Homs, Damascus and Quneitra.

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.