Shadadi was an ISIS stronghold for the terrorist organization's oil trade operations in northeast Syria that the Kurdish-led SDF liberated in February 2016.
Syria’s Kurds on Saturday handed four relatives of Islamic State group fighters, including three children, to Dutch diplomats for repatriation, a thorny issue for authorities in the Netherlands. The group consisted of a Dutch woman and her two children as well as another 12-year-old girl, “a humanitarian case,” whose mother had agreed to her repatriation following a request from the Dutch government, top Syrian Kurdish foreign affairs official.
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Special forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces keep watch in the vicinity of Al-Hol camp, in Syria s northeast, March 30, 2021. (AFP) Asharq Al-Awsat
Syria s Kurds on Saturday handed four relatives of ISIS group fighters, including three children, to Dutch diplomats for repatriation, a thorny issue for authorities in the Netherlands.
The group consisted of a Dutch woman and her two children as well as another 12-year-old girl, a humanitarian case, whose mother had agreed to her repatriation following a request from the Dutch government, top Syrian Kurdish foreign affairs official Abdel Karim Omar said.
The four were handed over to a delegation led by the Netherlands Syria envoy Emiel de Bont and senior foreign ministry official Dirk Jan Nieuwenhuis.
The Syrian Democratic Forces continue to dig tunnels on the demarcation lines with the Turkey-backed opposition factions in northeast Syria, fearing a military operation.