Last month, French authorities for the first time brought home five orphaned children of French jihadists' from camps in northeast Syria.
Last month, French authorities for the first time brought home five orphaned children of French jihadists' from camps in northeast Syria.
According to the UN children's agency UNICEF, around 3,000 foreign children from 43 countries are housed at the Al-Hol camp in Syria alone, which has taken in most of the people fleeing IS's self-proclaimed"caliphate" in recent weeks. Up to 1,700 French nationals are thought to have travelled to Iraq and Syria to fight with the jihadists between 2014 and 2018, according to government figures. Around 300 are believed to have died in combat.
Kurdish officials have warned they do not have the resources to hold all the captured fighters indefinitely, and Washington is also urging its allies in the anti-IS coalition to take home their citizens. But repatriation is a politically fraught issue, and governments fear they may not have enough evidence to convict IS members who claim they did not fight.
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