(AFP) Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said Wednesday that the country would not offer aid to return Swedes that had joined the Islamic State group and were currently held in camps in northeastern Syria.
“The government will not act so that the Swedish citizens and persons with connections to Sweden who are in camps or detention centres in north-eastern Syria are brought to Sweden,” Billstrom said in a statement to AFP.
“Sweden has no legal obligation to act for these individuals to be brought to Sweden. This applies to women, children and men,” he continued.
The Islamic State group’s fall in 2019 in Syria created the problem of what to do with the families of foreign jihadists captured or killed there and in Iraq.
