Over 1,400 Syrians Return Home From Abroad Over Past 24 Hours - Russian Defense Ministry

More than 1,400 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 - 17th November, 2018) More than 1,400 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, 1,424 people returned to the Syrian Arab Republic from the territory of foreign states: 404 people (122 women and 206 children) left Lebanon for Syria via the Jaydet-Yabus and Talkalakh crossing points, and 1,020 people (306 women and 519 children) returned from Jordan via the Nasib crossing point," the center said in its daily bulletin.

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

One humanitarian delivery was carried out by the Russian side over the period, with 450 food sets weighing 1.95 tonnes distributed in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province, according to the bulletin.

Syrian engineering units have destroyed 29 explosive devices, including two improved devices, the center specified.

As the Syrian government 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.