Many displaced Syrian families return from Jordan to liberated towns

DARAA, (ST)_Many displaced Syrian families have returned from Jordan to their liberated towns. 

According to the Syrian Alikhbaria TV channel, the families returned today through Nasib border crossing coming from al-Azraq camp in Jordan. 

Head of the Immigration center at the Nasib  border crossing Mr. Mazen Ghandor made it clear that 74400 people have returned home through Nasib crossing since October 2018. 
 
The returning families expressed their pleasure at returning home after they had suffered for years in the refugees camps in Jordan.

Over 27,400 people have returned via the Nasib crossing since mid October 2018 until September 2019.

Over 1,300 Syrian refugees have returned home from Jordan and Lebanon over the past 24-hour period, the Russian Defense Ministry’s center for Syrian reconciliation said on Tuesday.

“Over the past 24 hours, 1330 people returned to the Syrian Arab Republic from the territory of foreign states: 261 people, including 78 women and 133 children, from Lebanon via the Jaydet-Yabus and Talkalakh checkpoints; and 1069 people, including 321 women and 545 children, from Jordan via the Nassib checkpoint,” the center said in a statement.

Syrian engineering units also cleared 5.6 acres of land of mines, destroying 31 explosive devices, the center stated.

Basma Qaddour 

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