Over 1,100 Syrians Returned Home From Abroad Over Past 24 Hours - Russian Defense Ministry

More than 1,100 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 Wednesday

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 23rd January, 2019) More than 1,100 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 Wednesday.

"Over the past day, in total 1,175 people returned to the Syrian Arab Republic from the territory of foreign states: 447 people (134 women and 228 children) left Lebanon for Syria via the Jaydet-Yabus and Talkalakh checkpoints, and 728 people (218 women and 371 children) from Jordan via the Nasib checkpoint," the center said in its daily bulletin.

The center added that 207 internally displaced Syrians had returned to their homes over the given period.

According to the bulletin, the Syrian engineering units also defused 29 explosive devices in the country.

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.