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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emma Pinedo

Spain to repatriate wives and children of Islamic State fighters

AP

Spain has decided to bring back several Spanish wives, widows and children of Islamic State fighters from detention camps in northeastern Syria, the government said on Monday.

Thousands of foreigners including women and children had gone to Syria to live in the Islamic State’s caliphate until 2019, when US-backed Kurdish forces took the last pocket of Syrian territory from the jihadists.

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