Over 1,500 Syrians Returned Home From Abroad Over Past 24 Hours - Russian Defense Ministry

Fakhir Rizvi Published January 19, 2019 | 02:55 PM

More than 1,500 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 - 19th January, 2019) More than 1,500 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, a total of 1,582 people returned to the Syrian Arab Republic from the territory of foreign states: 467 people (140 women and 238 children) left Lebanon for Syria via the Jaydet-Yabus and Talkalakh checkpoints, and 1,115 people (335 women and 569 children) from Jordan via the Nasib checkpoint," the center said in its daily bulletin.

The center added that 158 internally displaced Syrians had returned to their homes over the given period.

According to the bulletin, the Syrian engineering units also defused 35 explosive devices in Syria over the past 24 hours.

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.