AANES hands over 726 ISIS children, women to 13 countries in 2023
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Monitoring and Documentation Department of North Press said that the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) had handed over 726 children and women of Islamic State (ISIS) foreign families from camps in northeast Syria to different countries since the beginning of 2023.
Thirteen foreign countries, including Spain, France, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan, Russia, Canada, Norway, New Zealand, Denmark, Barbados, Slovakia, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan, repatriated 555 children and 171 women from ISIS family members in 2023, according to the Monitoring and Documentation Department’s statistics.
A few days ago, the AANES announced that they had handed over a group of 96 children and women linked to ISIS to a Kyrgyzstani delegation.
ISIS lost its final stronghold in Syria in March 2019. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), with the support of the US-led Global Coalition, defeated the group after fierce battles in the town of Baghouz in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, ending the so-called ISIS caliphate.