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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
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Michael Fitzpatrick

France allows 40 children, 15 women back from Syrian camps holding IS suspects

A child at a refugee camp in Quneitra, Syria. © Alaa Faqir, Reuters

France has repatriated 55 people from camps in Syria holding family members of suspected Islamic State jihadists. It is the largest such repatriation in three months and comes a week after a European rights court condemned France for its refusal to return two women detained in Syria.

"The minors have been transferred to child support services," the foreign ministry said in a statement. "The adults have been handed over to the judicial authorities."

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