Record Number of Foreigners Repatriated from Syria Camps this Year

A boy gestures with his hand on his neck in an indication of the threat of beheading, at al-Hol camp, which houses families of ISIS members, in Hasakeh province, Syria, Saturday, May 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

Repatriations of foreign woman and children affiliated to ISIS from detention camps in northeast Syria hit a record high in 2022, Kurdish authorities said on Tuesday.

Thousands of foreigners including women and children had gone to Syria to live in ISIS’ so-called "caliphate" until 2019, when US-backed Kurdish forces snatched the last pocket of Syrian territory from the militants.