Damascus_ With the cessation of armed violence in Syrian settlements, 50 percent of the displaced people living in accommodation centers returned home, according to a government source today, Prensa Latina publishes.

The head of the Syrian Commission on Family Affairs, Mohamed Akram al-Qash, told Al-Watan newspaper that the return of these people to their homes was due to the army's release of numerous villages and towns of terrorists.

Al-Qash in its information did not disclose the exact number of people displaced by the armed conflict who returned to their homelands.

On the other hand, the authorities of the Damascus Government announced that they have recently closed three centers for the accommodation of these people, two in the district of Mezzeh and another in the Dummar district.

According to the authorities, the city of Damascus has 19 shelters for displaced persons with a capacity for more than 11 thousand people, a number that has gradually decreased during the last months.

In the Sports City of the northern province of Latakia, the government closed down the largest displaced persons accommodation center in the country, which sheltered more than 15,000 people from Aleppo.

After bloody combats against terrorist groups, the armed forces of this country released the northwestern city of Aleppo, in mid-December last year.

According to data from the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNHCR), as a result of the war imposed on Syria since 2011 by Western powers, more than four million civilians emigrated to neighboring countries and Europe, while some six million are internally displaced.

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