France Brings Back 15 Women, 32 Children From Syrian Detention Camps
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The return announced Tuesday -- which was committed due to pressure from humanitarian organisations -- is France's third large-scale repatriation.
France repatriated 15 women and 32 children held in jihadist prison camps in northeastern Syria, the French foreign ministry said Tuesday.
"The minors were handed over to the services in charge of child assistance and will be subject to medical and social monitoring," the ministry said in a statement.
It added that "the adults have been handed over to the competent judicial authorities".
Over the past decade, thousands of extremists in Europe travelled to Syria to become fighters with the Islamic State group (IS), often taking their families to live in the self-declared "caliphate" it set up in territory seized in Iraq and Syria.
