There will be six women and at least 13 children Aboard the repatriation flight.
who have been detained for years in Syrian detention camps for suspected members of the Islamic State are on the verge of being repatriated to Canada, the Star has learned.Aboard the repatriation flight will be six women and at least 13 children detained in the Kurdish-run Roj and Al-Hawl camps, lawyer Lawrence Greenspon said in an interview.
Greenspon said the federal government is also offering to bring six other detained children back to Quebec, but not their mother. He said he told government officials: “She wants her six children to be repatriated and ... she wants to come home to Quebec with them.”Global Affairs did not immediately return a request for comment.
At its most powerful, it controlled vast swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq, but its fighting capabilities were degraded and its members were killed, captured or detained after a coalition military operation. The fate of those captured and suspected of having supported or fought with ISIS has been left to the Kurdish-run Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria, which controls territory and runs the sprawling detention camps south of the Turkish border.
Canadian officials meet with Kurdish officials in a signing and handover ceremony, during which they formally take custody of the detainees before flying them out of the region.
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