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About 1.2 million Syrian refugees return homes since 2015: Russia
MOSCOW, July 30, 2018 (BSS/Xinhua) – About 1.2 million Syrian refugees have
returned to their homes since September 2015, when Russia launched an
operation against “terrorists” in Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry was
quoted as saying by Sputnik.
According to the country’s ministry-affiliated Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star)
newspaper, as many as 1.186 million internally displaced Syrians have
returned to their homes from refugees’ camps during this period.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on July 20 that more than 6.9 million
people have left Syria since 2011 when the Syrian civil war broke out, most
of whom are living in 45 countries.
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