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Sacha Pfeiffer

After years in a Syrian ISIS camp, a 10-person American family is back in the U.S.

A woman carries a child as she walks through the al-Hol refugee camp in northeastern Syria in October 2023. (Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images)

A family of 10 American citizens who were held for years in a Syrian refugee camp and detention center for relatives of Islamic State militants are now back in the United States, the result of complex negotiations that also returned two young sons of a Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to supporting the ISIS terrorist group.

As an additional part of that coordinated international effort, Canada and two European countries — Finland and the Netherlands — this week brought home 11 of their citizens held in those camps, the majority of them children.

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