(Global News) Canadians detained at a sprawling camp for ISIS families in northern Syria have been photographed and fingerprinted in recent days as part of an operation to register them so they can be sent home.
The Syrian Democratic Forces entered the Al-Hawl camp last week to create a registry of the estimated 10,000 foreign women and children held there since their capture during the fight against ISIS.
Roughly a dozen Canadian women and several dozen children are among those at the camp, and an academic researcher told Global News that at least some had been registered.
Professor Amarnath Amarasingam said he had been in contact with the families of Canadian women who had been through the registration process, which also involved having iris scans.
