PARIS (Reuters) – France said on Thursday it carried out a new operation to return French nationals – 40 children and 15 women – from Kurdish-run camps in northeastern Syria.
“The minors were handed over to the child care services and will be subject to medical and social follow-up,” the ministry said, while the women would be transferred to the judicial authorities.
In September, The European Court of Human Rights ruled that France must re-examine repatriation requests from two French women who travelled to Syria with their partners to join Islamic State, and the children they gave birth to there.
(Reporting by Tassilo Hummel; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)
