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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Canada to Repatriate 23 Citizens from Syria

The Kurdish-run al-Hol camp in Syria holds thousands of foreign women and children with ties to the ISIS group who are not being repatriated by their home countries. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

Canada will repatriate twenty-three citizens who have been detained in northeast Syria in camps for family members of ISIS group fighters, officials and a lawyer said Friday.

It would be the largest such repatriation of ISIS family members yet for Canada, and it comes after the families challenged the government in court, arguing Ottawa was obliged to repatriate the group under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, AFP said.

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