300 Syrian refugees return home from Arsal

Several hundred Syrian refugees in Lebanon on Wednesday (July 12th) returned home to the Syrian town of Asal al-Ward, Lebanese media reported.

Around 300 refugees, the second batch this year, left al-Nour encampment in the north-eastern border town of Arsal for Syria's Asal al-Ward in the western part of Qalamoun.

They were accompanied by tight security measures, the National News Agency said.

In a June 30th report, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said it is seeing a notable trend of spontaneous returns to and within Syria in 2017.

Aid agencies estimate that more than 440,000 internally displaced people returned to their homes in Syria during the first six months of this year, the UNHCR said.

UNHCR has monitored over 31,000 Syrian refugees returning from neighbouring countries so far in 2017, while some 260,000 refugees have spontaneously returned to Syria since 2015, primarily from Turkey into northern Syria.

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