(Brussels Times) This morning a military aircraft landed at Melsbroek airfield outside Brussels, carrying six women and ten children repatriated from a refugee camp in Syria.
The women, aged between 25 and 53 years, have been held in the Kurdish-run camp Roj in north-east Syria, after being captured by Kurdish forces. Four of the women are from Brussels and two from Flanders.
They left Belgium to follow their husbands to Syria to fight on the side of Islamic State (IS) against the forces of Syrian president Assad.
On their arrival in Belgium, the women will be taken directly to prison, where some still face prison sentences for membership of a terrorist organisation. Others are under a detention order.
