Record number of foreigners repatriated from IS camps in Syria this year


  • World
  • Tuesday, 08 Nov 2022

QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) - Repatriations of foreign woman and children affiliated to Islamic State from detention camps in northeast Syria hit a record high in 2022, Kurdish authorities said on Tuesday.

Thousands of foreigners including women and children had gone to Syria‮ ‬to live in IS's so-called "caliphate" until 2019, when U.S.-backed Kurdish forces snatched the last pocket of Syrian territory from the jihadists.

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