WASHINGTON: The United States repatriated 11 US citizens, including five minors, from northeastern Syria, the State Department said on Tuesday, in the largest single return of Americans from the war zone.
The United States also helped repatriate six Canadians, four Dutch citizens and a child from Finland back to those countries, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement.
A 9-year-old non-US citizen, who was a sibling of one of the American minors, was also resettled in the United States, he said.
Thousands of foreigners, including women and children, had moved to Syria from countries around the world to live in Islamic State’s so-called “caliphate” until 2019, when US-backed Kurdish forces snatched the last pocket of Syrian territory from the jihadists.
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