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REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, DAMASCUS — Kurdish authorities in the northeast Syria handed over four women and 10 children to the delegation Canada for their return. Western governments have come under increasing criticism for failing to take back their nationals who traveled to Iraq and Syria to volunteer for the Islamic State.

“On Wednesday, four wives and 10 children of foreign fighters Islamic State those who lived in the Roj camp were handed over to representatives of the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs”, reported a Kurdish government official, Khaled Ibrahim. Al ArabiyaThursday (04/06/2023).

Ibrahim said the women were between 26 and 35 years old. During this time, the children ranged in age from three to 11 years old. Ibrahim added that this was Canada’s fourth repatriation from overcrowded refugee camps in northeast Syria.

On January 21, the Federal Court of Canada ordered the government to repatriate 23 nationals, including 19 women and children, from the Roj and al-Hol camps. Previously, the Canadian government treated family members Islamic State in Syria on a case-by-case basis. In four years, only a handful of women and children have been sent home.

Since the destruction of the Islamic State regime in Syria and Iraq in 2019, more than 42,400 foreign adults and children suspected of having links to ISIS have been detained in camps in Syria. According to Human Rights Watch, among those detained were about 30 Canadian nationals, including 10 children.

Their repatriation is a very sensitive issue for many governments. But they have been widely criticized for their reluctance to repatriate their own nationals from Syrian camps

Last month, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for the rapid return of foreigners detained at Syria’s al-Hol camp, which is home to more than 50,000 people. Almost half of them are children. After visiting the camps in March, the head of US Central Command, General Michael Kurilla, called for the repatriation, rehabilitation and reintegration of camp residents into their home countries and communities.