Syria Repatriates 146 ISIS-linked Tajiki Women and Children

A child from the families linked to ISIS militants looks out the window of a bus after the authorities of the Kurdish units handed them over to Tajikistan in the city of Qamishli on Monday (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Syria’s autonomous Kurdish administration handed Tajikistan 146 women and children who were held in the al-Hol and Roj camps in northeast Syria.

The operation was the largest of its kind since March 2009. It included 104 children and 42 women who arrived in Syria in early 2015.