Iran releases Belgian aid worker in controversial prisoner swap
Olivier Vandecasteele, the Belgian aid worker held for 455 days in Iran, has finally been released, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo announced on Friday (26 May).
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Olivier Vandecasteele, the Belgian aid worker held for 455 days in Iran, has finally been released, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo announced on Friday (26 May).
3 Hours Al-Hol camp, located outside the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah, currently holds roughly 62,000 residents, including children born to foreign parents who joined ISIS. (Photo: Archive) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sophie Wilmes told the country’s parliament on Tuesday that 27 children stuck in displacement camps in northeast Syria would be eligible for DNA testing. Wilmes told a meeting of the parliament’s foreign relations committee that the tests could be carried out locally and analyzed in Belgium. The ministe...