US repatriates two dozen westerners from Islamic State camp in Syria
US repatriates two dozen westerners from Islamic State camp in Syria
Group includes 11 US citizens, including five minors, but tens of thousands of people remained detained five years after defeat of IS
The Kurdish fighters are holding more than 56,000 detainees with alleged or perceived links to the Islamic State group.
According to a recent Amnesty International report, some 29,000 children are held in the two largest camps, representing “the highest concentration of children arbitrarily deprived of their liberty anywhere in the world”.
Is this fallout from Trump's betrayal of the Kurds? I'm surprised they are being reasonable with the U.S. after the abrupt pullout of troops.
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The operation is the largest ever of US citizens and comes as rights groups warn of dire conditions in the camps still in use some five years after the ultra-violent extremist movement lost its last territory in Syria.
“The only durable solution to the humanitarian and security crisis in the displaced persons camps and detention facilities in north-east Syria is for countries to repatriate, rehabilitate, reintegrate and, where appropriate, ensure accountability for wrongdoing,” Blinken said in a statement.
But a Kurdish administration official, Faner al-Kaait, called foreign countries’ repatriation efforts “insufficient” and urged the international community to seek “comprehensive” solutions to the issue.
Abdelhamid Al-Madioum, a naturalized American originally from Morocco, had cooperated by giving information on the Islamic State and says he hopes to counsel others against extremism, according to court documents.
He had located his two sons in Syria – one a US citizen and one his sibling without US citizenship – and wants them to be raised by his grandparents in Minnesota as he serves prison time, according to the Star Tribune of Minneapolis.
Both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have warned of deteriorating conditions at the camps and questioned the legality of prolonged detention of people, especially children, without charge.
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