AANES hands over about 100 ISIS women and children to Uzbekistan

World 09:56 AM - 2021-05-01

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The Foreign Relations Office of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) announced on Friday that they have handed over about 100 Uzbek women and children from the ISIS families present at their camps to the government of Uzbekistan.

 

According to the Foreign Relations' report, 92 Uzbeks, of whom 24 are women and 68 are children of the families of ISIS members from Al-Hawl camp were handed over to representatives of the Uzbek government, under an official return document signed by representatives of the Uzbek side at the headquarters of the Department of Foreign Relations in Qamishli city.

 

Uzbekistan had previously repatriated 240 women and children, according to what a representative of the Uzbek delegation told the Foreign Relations Office of the Autonomous Administration.

 

Kurdish authorities in the AANES have been struggling in managing tens of thousands of suspected ISIS fighters and their families who are settled in several camps since the terrorist group lost its last stronghold in Syria two years ago. 

 

Al-Hawl, which is the largest camp in the AANES, houses thousands of foreign ISIS militants from dozens of countries. There is also Roj camp which houses fewer numbers of foreign fighters.

 

Kurdish authorities have for many times called on world countries to take back their citizens as they say they cannot carry that responsibility on their own.

 

ISIS occupied large swathes of land in Syrian and Iraqi in 2014, declaring a caliphate across both countries. The terrorists were militarily defeated in Iraq in 2017 and Syria in 2019. However, remnants of the group continue to impose threats in both countries. 

 

 

 

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