Several hundred displaced Syrians in Lebanon have returned home on Wednesday to the Syrian town of Asal al-Ward, the National News Agency said.
Around 300 refuges left the al-Nour encampment in the northeastern border town of Arsal to Syria's Asal al-Ward, which lies in the western part of Syria's Qalamoun, NNA said.
They were accompanied by tight security measures, it said.
Humanitarian agencies have recorded a notable trend of spontaneous returns to and within Syria in 2017, with more than 440,000 internally displaced people going back to their homes in the first six months of this year, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said.
In total, 260,000 refugees have gone back to Syria from neighboring countries since 2015.
Lebanon alone hosts more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees, more than a quarter of the country's population, not to mention undocumented individuals.
The influx has put added strain on Lebanon's already frail water, electricity, and school networks. It had burdened the country's social, economic and other sectors.
The World Bank says the Syrian crisis has pushed an estimated 200,000 Lebanese into poverty, adding to the nation's one million poor.
