(Brussels Times) Belgium is looking into whether it can bring back the wives of ISIS fighters from Syria, Het Laatste Nieuws reported. In 2021, six women and ten children were repatriated, but it is not clear how many people will meet the requirements this time.
Last year Belgium for the first time ever returned women and children from a relief camp in Roj, near the Iraqi border. Women and children that were imprisoned in the Al-Hol prison camp couldn’t be reached because it was considered too unsafe in the prison camp.
Yet Syrian Kurds who run the [camps] have relocated several Belgian mothers and their children from Al-Hol to Roj. A Belgian research team visited them recently and questioned the mothers while taking DNA samples from the women and children to determine whether the children were actually born to Belgian parents.
