France halts mass repatriations of jihadist wives from Syria

(AFP) France has repatriated all of the French women and children who want to return home from Kurdish-run jihadist prison camps in Syria and will not be organising any more flights, a diplomatic source said on Friday.

Another 10 women and 25 children landed back in France on Tuesday on the latest state-organised flight, which followed international pressure on countries to take back their nationals who travelled to territory controlled by the Islamic State (IS) group from 2014-2019.

“Having repatriated all of the mothers who wanted to leave Syria, there will not be any more of these types of operations,” a diplomatic source told AFP on Friday, asking not to be named.

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