(New Arab) Sweden repatriated two women and four children from northeast Syria on Thursday, the day after the area’s Kurdish-led authorities announced the end of a deadly prison stand-off in the city of Hasakeh.
The six Swedes were met at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport by the authorities, Swedish foreign minister Ann Linde told SVT.
The women were arrested by police on suspicion of war crimes, the Public Prosecutor’s Office said, while the children were taken in by social services.
The Al-Hol and Roj camps in northeastern Syria’s Hasakeh province are home to about 60,000 people, mostly women and children relatives of Islamic State (IS) fighters, from dozens of countries worldwide.
