ALEPPO, Syria — Hundreds of displaced Syrians have returned to their villages in the Lajal region of Daraa province, under the auspices of the Russian forces that mediated with the Syrian government for the return of the displaced to their areas of control.
On May 22, the Russian Sputnik agency said, “More than 420 displaced people from the village of Eyeb in the northern countryside of Daraa returned home years after they fled repeated attacks launched by the Islamic State, which took control of the adjacent Lajat region in the northeastern countryside of the [Daraa] province.”
