[(Title)] Syrian refugees return home from Lebanon.

ARSAL, Lebanon — Hundreds of Syrian refugees left Lebanon on Monday for their neighboring home country, an AFP reporter said, the latest such return coordinated between Beirut and Damascus.

数百名居住在黎巴嫩的叙利亚难民在贝鲁特和大马士革政府的协调下跨过边境，返回家园。 在黎巴嫩东部边境城镇阿尔萨尔，各个年龄段的男女老少都聚集在汽车，小型货车和拖拉机上。

In Lebanon's eastern border town of Arsal, men, women and children of all ages piled into cars, minivans and tractors.

Security forces checked the identity papers of those about to make the journey back to Syria with suitcases, boxes of food and even live poultry, an AFP photographer said.

安全部队检查了即将返回叙利亚的人的身份证件，配有行李箱、食物箱甚至活家禽。

"The voluntary repatriation of around 850 Syrian refugees started" on Monday morning, Lebanon's state news agency NNA reported.

黎巴嫩国家新闻机构星期一早上报道，“大约850名叙利亚难民的自愿遣返工作已经开始”。

Seven years into Syria's war, Lebanon hosts around 1.5 million Syrian refugees, compared with a local population of 4.5 million.

在叙利亚战争七年之后，黎巴嫩收容了约150万叙利亚难民，而当地人口为450万。在过去几个月里，800多名叙利亚人在贝鲁特和大马士革政府组织的类似行动中离开黎巴嫩。

Over the past few months, more than 800 Syrians have left Lebanon in similar operations organized by the governments of Beirut and Damascus.

Syria's state news agency SANA said the first of "hundreds of Syrians coming from Lebanese territory" had arrived and were heading to Qalamun outside the capital.

叙利亚国家通讯社说，第一批来自黎巴嫩领土的数以百计的叙利亚人已经抵达。叙利亚盟友俄罗斯还向美国提出了合作让难民安全返回叙利亚的计划。

Syria's ally Russia has also put forward plans to the United States to cooperate for the safe return of refugees to Syria.

Moscow has proposed the establishment of working groups in Lebanon and Jordan, to where many refugees have fled, a Russian defense ministry official said on Friday.

俄罗斯国防部一名官员星期五说，莫斯科已提议在黎巴嫩和约旦成立工作组，许多难民逃往那里。

An advisor to Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has met Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov to find out more about the initiative, the premier's office said on Saturday.

总理办公室周六表示，黎巴嫩总理萨阿德·哈里里的一名顾问会见了俄罗斯外交部副部长米哈伊尔·波格丹诺夫，以了解更多关于这项倡议的消息。

The step would "help solve the refugees' crisis in Lebanon and put an end to their suffering and its social and economic repercussions on the host countries, mainly Lebanon," it said in English.

这一步将“帮助解决黎巴嫩境内的难民危机，并结束他们的痛苦以及对东道国，主要是黎巴嫩的社会和经济影响。” 

Last month Lebanon's Hezbollah said the powerful movement was creating a mechanism to help Syrian refugees return home, in coordination with Lebanese authorities and Damascus.

黎巴嫩真主党上个月表示，强大运动正在与黎巴嫩当局和大马士革协调，建立一个帮助叙利亚难民返回家园的机制。

More than 350,000 people have been killed and over half the country's population displaced since Syria's war started with the brutal repression of anti-government protests in 2011. — AFP

自叙利亚战争开始于2011年残酷镇压反政府抗议活动以来，已有超过35万人丧生，超过一半的国家人口流离失所。