Syria Kurds hand over three children from ISIS families to Britain
World 07:24 PM - 2021-10-19
Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria have handed over three British children who had been living in a camp housing the families of suspected Islamic State group jihadists, a senior official said Tuesday.
"On 18 October, three British children from ISIS families were handed over," said Abdulkarim Omar, the semi-autonomous administration's top foreign policy official, using another acronym for IS.
The handover was conducted within the framework of an official repatriation document signed with the British foreign office, Omar said in a statement.
The children were handed over in the presence of Jonathan Hargreaves, the British envoy to Syria.
Omar did not divulge the identity of the children or their parents, nor did he provide any details on the camp they had been living in or for how long.
Another Kurdish official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the press said the children were a two-year-old girl and her two brothers aged seven and nine.
Their mother was not transferred to Britain and stayed behind in one of the camps where tens of thousands of relatives of suspected IS members, many of them foreigners, are penned-in.
The Kurdish authorities have consistently said they lack the financial means and the legal infrastructure to hold or prosecute so many individuals.
Western countries have been reluctant to bring their nationals home, wary of the impact mass repatriations could have on domestic security and public opinion.
PUKmedia / AFP
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