Four-year-old Canadian girl rescued from Syrian detention camp, mother left behind

March 14, 2021 and   

(CTV) A little girl has been rescued from a detention camp in northeast Syria and is on her way to Canada, but her Canadian mother is not with her.

The four-year-old girl, whose identity is being withheld, was rescued not through the efforts of the government, but the efforts of her Canadian aunt and a former U.S. diplomat, CTV News can confirm.

The girl’s mother was not allowed to leave with her. In a text message, she said she kept a brave face, but her heart “was broken in a million pieces.”

The child and her mother were stranded in Kurdish detention camps in Syria after the defeat of ISIS.

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