DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – Ten Belgian children and six mothers have been recovered from a prison camp for captured terrorists in Syria and were flown home, a source told AFP on Friday. The operation is the biggest such repatriation since the battlefield defeat of the Daesh terrorist group in 2019, and follows a decision by Belgium to secure the return of under-12s.
The group is from the camp in Roj, in northeast Syria, where surviving suspected members of the group are being held under the supervision of Kurdish militants.