UK secretly repatriates children of British ISIS brides, puts them for adoption, new report reveals

The children of British women who joined the ISIS terror group are being returned to the UK and put up for adoption, it has emerged, the Daily Mail has said.

According to the Daily Mail’s report, published on Monday, at tleast ten children are said to have been repatriated from detention camps in Syria. Those that have been repatriated are understood to be mainly orphans of unaccompanied minors.

Among them were two siblings whose British mother is believed to have been killed in northeastern Syria in 2019. Their father, who is not British, is understood to have been captured and is currently in a detention camp for foreign fighters, the report added.

Charities say that seven other unaccompanied children have been returned to Britain, with one further being allowed back last October with his mother. All are believed to have received counselling, with older children possibly having been referred to the Prevent deradicalisation programme.

Britain is the last Western state to have refused to repatriate families that joined the ISIS, and has made exceptions only for a small number of unaccompanied children.