(CBC) A Canadian woman being held in an ISIS detention camp in northeast Syria has been released with the help of the former U.S. diplomat who helped get her four-year-old daughter out of the camp and to relatives in Canada earlier this year.
“I can confirm that it’s true and that, yes, I brought her out,” Peter Galbraith told CBC News. “It was a strictly private initiative.”
Galbraith is known to have good relations with Global Affairs Canada and also has strong relations with the Syrian and Iraqi Kurds.
Sources say the woman arrived in Erbil in neighbouring northern Iraq over the weekend after being released from the Al Roj camp, near Syria’s borders with Turkey and Iraq.
