Over 1,200 Syrians Return Home From Abroad Over Past 24 Hours - Russian Defense Ministry

Umer Jamshaid Published November 16, 2018 | 04:53 PM

More than 1,200 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 Friday

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 16th November, 2018) More than 1,200 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 Friday.

"Over the past day, in total, 1,233 people returned to the Syrian Arab Republic from the territory of foreign states: 108 people (25 women and 68 children) left Lebanon for Syria via the Jaydet-Yabus and Talkalakh CPs [crossing points], and 1,125 people (361 women and 583 children) from Jordan via the Nasib CP," the center said in its daily bulletin.

The center added that over 284 internally displaced Syrians had returned to their homes in Eastern Ghouta, Deir ez-Zor and Damascus provinces over the given period.

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.