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Daily Mirror
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Rachel Hagan

'Barbaric' Foreign Office ignores plea to evacuate Brit who had stroke in Syria camp

The Foreign Office has been blasted as "barbaric" for leaving a dangerously ill British woman in a detention camp in northeast Syria.

The woman, who is in her early 40s and referred to as “Layla”, has spent almost four years in camps with her five-year-old son.

Along with approximately 65 other women from Britain and their children, Layla has been stranded in camps since the defeat of the so-called Islamic State.

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