France: More Women, Children Returned From ISIS Camps in Syria

Stéphane Romatet, head of the crisis management and support center in the French Foreign Ministry (L), poses for a photo with Robel Baho, Deputy Head of the External Relations Department of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, after signing a document of surrender for women and children of ISIS terrorists, at the department's headquarters in the city of Qamishli, Syria, on Jan. 23, 2023. Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria via AP

PARIS—France on Tuesday repatriated another group of women and children from former ISIS terrorist group-controlled areas of Syria, the latest return of French nationals who'd been stranded in camps there, eyed warily by Paris.

The group was made up of 32 minors and 15 adult women, France’s national counterterrorism prosecutor’s office said. It said the women, ranging in age from 19 to 56, were held in custody—some on the basis of arrest warrants previously issued against them. The children were placed in the care of protective services.