Illustrative image: AP Photo/Hassan Ammar
16,557 people have settled their legal status and have surrendered 4,017 weapons in the recently liberated area of Rastan in northern Homs, the Russian Centre for Reconciliation said on May 27.
The area of Rastan was fully liberated by the Syrian Army and its allies on May 16 after a radical part of militants and their families had evacuated from the area under a surrender agreement with the Syrian government.
The Russian Center added in the same statement that 66,717 people had returned their homes in the Eastern Ghouta subrub of Damascus due to improving humanitarian situation.
The Eastern Ghouta region was fully liberated on April 14 after the Syrian Army had crushed the militants’ defense there and forced the vestiges of militant groups to accept a reconciliation or to withdraw.
