Syrian refugees in Jordan 'returning home voluntarily'

The director of the department of Syrian refugee camps in Jordan has claimed that more around 300 to 350 Syrian refugees are voluntarily leaving the camps to return to their country everyday. Waddah Hamoud told Arab Today that more than 83,000 Syrian refugees have travelled back to their homeland since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011, out of an estimated 550,000 Syrians who sought refuge in Jordan. Hamoud put the number of Syrian refugees currently living in the camps at 137,000. The Jordanian official explained that a fourth camp, in the town of Mokheizan al-Gharbeyeh, in Azraq, east Jordan, would be opened at the beginning of September.