Kyrgyzstan brings home 95 ISIL wives, children from Syrian internment camps

August 31, 2023

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Two French women, Um Muhammad, 30 and Nour, 23, and an unidentified French woman walk at the section reserved for foreigners, inside the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp for the displaced in the al-Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria on January 14, 2020. - In the overcrowded Al-Hol desert camp for families linked to the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria, a French woman begs for another chance so she and her children can go home, while two others are more tepid about the prospect of repatriation, with one saying she fears being separated from her child. (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP) (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

The government of Kyrgyzstan announced that 95 wives and children of ISIL (ISIS) fighters have been repatriated from internment camps in northeast Syria as part of a humanitarian mission on August 30, reported Aljazeera.

This operation was carried out with the help of the US, the UN and the Red Cross, which also involved provision of humanitarian assistance and necessary medicines to the population of the region.

Following several visits to the region since 2019, Human Rights Watch has warned that the detention camps, especially in Syria, are “life-threatening” for children, stressing that the conditions are deeply degrading, and in many cases, inhuman.

It should be mentioned that Thousands of people from the former Soviet republics of Central Asia joined various foreign fighting groups, including the ISIL, particularly between 2013 and 2015.