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800 refugees from Iraqi return home after being in Syria

800 Iraqi refugees returned home from northeast Syria with the first group of refugees leaving on buses via the Al-Yarubiyah border crossing, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

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On Thursday, 800 Iraqi refugees returned home from northeast Syria.

The first group of refugees left on buses via the Al-Yarubiyah border crossing, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

A senior Iraqi security source said: “We have been checking their identities for security reasons for the past year.”

“They’ve been suffering from the difficult economic conditions in Syria,” the Iraqi security source added.

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