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France repatriates 35 women and children from Syrian jihadist camps

A woman and her children at the al-Hol camp for displaced people in northeastern Syria in February 2019. © Bulent Kilic/AFP

Ten women and 25 children held prisoner in camps in north eastern Syria have been brought back to France in the fourth such repatriation of the families of jihadists.

The French foreign ministry announced Tuesday that it participated in an operation to bring back from Syria “children and mothers”, who will be handed over to authorities in France.

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