Record Number of Foreigners Repatriated From ISIS Camps in Syria This Year

The Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected ISIS terrorists in the northeastern Hasakeh governorate, during a security operation by the Kurdish Asayish security forces and the special forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces, on Aug. 26, 2022. Delil Soulieman/AFP via Getty Images

QAMISHLI, Syria—Repatriations of foreign women and children affiliated to the ISIS terrorist group from detention camps in northeast Syria hit a record high in 2022, Kurdish authorities said on Tuesday.

Thousands of foreigners including women and children had gone to Syria‮‮ ‬‬to live in ISIS’s so-called “caliphate” until 2019, when U.S.-backed Kurdish forces snatched the last pocket of Syrian territory from the terrorists.