The U.S. has repatriated a total of 24 Western citizens, including 11 Americans, from camps in northeast Syria controlled by a Kurdish-led militia that fought against the Islamic State. Among them were minors and citizens from Canada, the Netherlands, and Finland. The repatriation was assisted by the government of Kuwait and the Syrian Democratic Forces.
More than half the Canadians once detained in Syrian camps for suspected ISIS family members have returned home https://t.co/amhD8xc0is
The rapid population increase in detention camps in northeast #Syria created dire humanitarian circumstances and security concerns for camp residents. @DevorahMargolin detailed the tenuous situation at al-Hol camp and other detention facilities: https://t.co/04h1tQQhTe https://t.co/1L3WkxZHwp
A repatriation of a small group reminds us: 45,000 people, mostly women and children, are languishing in camps -- effectively detention -- because their father or husband brought them to Syria to join ISIS. They face endless detention (or radicalization). https://t.co/gUHkNRcIQf
BBC News: "US repatriates 11 Americans, six Canadians from Syria" https://t.co/sYJdOVrtG5
"Canada repatriates 6 children of woman deemed security risk from ISIS camp" https://t.co/QkV433n66g
US repatriates 11 US citizens from northeast Syria https://t.co/Xt7bOBblpu
Together with 11 American citizens, six Canadian citizens, four Dutch citizens, and one Finnish citizen, including eight children, were brought back to their home countries with the assistance of the United States https://t.co/eSL6w4GyJh
The U.S. repatriated 11 Americans, six Canadians, four Dutch citizens and one Finnish citizen from northeast Syria, according to a statement from Secretary of State Antony Blinken. https://t.co/UCpgYitFvQ
US repatriates 11 Americans held in northeast Syria "Five years after the Islamic State lost its final stronghold in Syria, tens of thousands of women and children remain stranded in detention camps in the country's northeast," @ElizHagedorn writes https://t.co/EYEJwTAdjW
11 US citizens and one non-citizen were repatriated by the Biden administration from "camps" in northeast Syria controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces. The US said the government of Kuwait and the Syrian Democratic Forces assisted with repatriations https://t.co/hHKIpDEzzH
US repatriates 11 American citizens from camps in northeast Syria https://t.co/eSL6w4GyJh
Repatriation of U.S., Canadian, Dutch and Finnish Citizens from Northeast Syria https://t.co/T2osoT9KFv
The United States announced it had brought back two dozen Western citizens, half of them Americans, from Islamic State prison camps in northeastern Syria where tens of thousands have languished https://t.co/xlkJTqUodN
US repatriates 11 Americans and six Canadian children from Syria https://t.co/NFEXXjsaNJ
The U.S. has retrieved 11 American citizens, five of whom were minors, who had been stranded for years in desert camps and detention centers in Syria run by a Kurdish-led militia that battled the Islamic State, according to officials. https://t.co/fLjQy2blJA