France has repatriated 35 French children and 16 mothers – family members of suspected jihadists who joined the Islamic State armed group before it was ousted in 2019. This is the country's largest repatriation of children since the fall of Islamic State, with the decision to bring back the mothers signalling a significant shift in French policy.
The Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday that 35 minors had arrived in France, most of them traveling with their mothers, though seven had been living on their own in Kurdish-run refugee camps in north-eastern Syria.
