Three children of ISIS families handed over to the Nigerian Government

The Autonomous Administration in North and East of Syria has handed over today three orphan children of the families of the Islamic State group (ISIS) of Nigerian origin to the government of their country.

The delegation of the Nigerian government and the Office of the External Relations of the Autonomous Administration held a press conference in which the representative of the Nigerian government, Musa Habib said: “The three children are of the family of Uweys in Nigeria, and they range between 4, 6, and 8 years old”. 

Regarding Nigeria’s stance about the prosecution or the extradition of ISIS militants who are being detained by the Autonomous Administration in no Syria, Habib said that “the Nigerian government will be supportive of the decisions of the Autonomous Administration regarding this issue”, pointing out that Nigeria is also “suffering from terrorism, but under another name, which is Boko Haram group”.

The two sides have signed a document to hand over three Nigerian children to the government of their country. 

The Autonomous Administration was able to send back hundreds of children and women of the Islamic State to their countries after it had been communicating with their governments, while many other countries still refuse to take back their citizens, amid demands to establish an international tribunal to try the members of the terrorist group, where their number reaches thousands in the prisons of the Autonomous Administration in north and east of Syria. 

According to the official records of al-Hawl camp in northeastern Syria, there are nearly 300 orphans and children of ISIS families who are now in the camp, 113 of whom are being sponsored by the humanitarian organizations in centers within the camp, while the rest are being adopted by the group’s families.