Spain to bring back Spanish families from IS camps in Syria

FILE PHOTO: A general view of al-Hol displacement camp in Hasaka governorate, Syria April 2, 2019. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho/File Photo

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain has decided to bring back several Spanish wives, widows and children of Islamic State fighters from detention camps in northeastern Syria, a government source said on Monday, confirming a report in El Pais newspaper.

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