(Breitbart) Documents from the Swedish state department reveal that Kurdish authorities wanted Sweden to take back Islamic State women from prison camps as they deemed them too dangerous to remain in Syria. On September 5th, three Islamic State women and their children […]
(AFP) Germany has repatriated eight women who joined the IS terror group and 23 children from northern Syria in the biggest such transfer since 2019, the foreign ministry said. “The children are not responsible for their situation … the mothers will have […]
(Global News) A Canadian ISIS member caught in Syria and flown to the United States to stand trial should have been prosecuted in Canada, a lawyer representing his family said Monday. “If there is evidence against Canadians who are being arbitrarily detained […]
(Global News) A Canadian who was allegedly “a leading figure” in the ISIS media section has been taken to the United States to face terrorism charges, the U.S. Justice Department said Saturday. The FBI took custody of Mohamed Khalifa from Kurdish forces […]
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(Global News) On Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020, a Canadian government delegation crossed the Tigris River into northeast Syria to take custody of a five-year-old orphan. Amira was the only survivor of a Canadian family killed by an airstrike during the fight against […]
(Global News) The families of more than two dozen Canadians held at prisons and camps for ISIS detainees in Syria have filed a case in the Federal Court accusing the government of failing to bring them home. Eleven families, which were not […]
(Helsinki Times) According to several sources, Finland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs organised a distance learning programme for Finnish children being held in Syria’s al-Hol camp without the knowledge of Kurdish authorities. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with other ministries and […]
(AFP) Swedish police said Monday they had arrested two women linked to the Islamic State group after they flew back from Syria, as media reported that one was being investigated for war crimes. Stockholm police spokesman Ola Osterling said the prosecutor leading […]
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(Deutsche Welle) German federal prosecutors arrested a woman on Monday suspected of collecting money for the extremist “Islamic State” (IS) group and helping with bank transfers to the Middle East. The suspect, identified only as Denise S., is thought to have been in contact with […]
(Reuters) Latvian border guards turned back dozens of migrants into Belarus overnight under a new state of emergency designed to stem a flow of arrivals the European Union says is orchestrated by Minsk. At daybreak on Wednesday some 30 migrants — including […]
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(BuzzFeed) An American-born girl who grew up under ISIS control was rescued from a Syrian detention camp last month after the girl’s mother — a US citizen who left the country and in 2014 joined the terrorist organization — and her father […]
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(BBC) A British man who went to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) group has admitted sharing beheading videos. Stefan Aristidou, 27, entered guilty pleas to four terrorism offences at the Old Bailey and will be sentenced in September. BBC research […]
(AP) A German woman who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group and whose husband bought a Yazidi woman as a slave has been charged with membership in a terror group and being an accessory to a crime against humanity, […]
(Middle East Eye) On 16 July, the majority of the women and children held at al-Roj camp were still asleep when a convoy of cars entered the open-air prison in northeastern Syria. A few minutes later, at around 5.30am, six Belgian [women] […]
(Global News) Prosecutors have approved charges against a captured Canadian ISIS fighter, according to documents that show how federal officials have dealt with citizens detained in Syria. The approved charges are the first known to have been authorized against a Canadian member […]
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(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 […]
(Kurdistan 24) Finland is bringing home a family with ties to ISIS from northeast Syria on Friday as part of the government’s efforts to rescue children from violent displacement camps. Ambassador Jussi Tanner, the Finnish Foreign Ministry’s special envoy in charge of […]
(BBC) Ten children and six mothers held in a prison camp for jihadists in Syria have been flown home to Belgium. It is the biggest repatriation of suspected Islamic State (IS) members since the group’s fall in 2019. Hundreds of Europeans who […]
(Dutch News) The cabinet has been given three months to show it is making an effort to repatriate five Dutch women from Kurdish prison camps in Syria so that they can attend their trials on terrorism charges in person, broadcaster NOS has […]
(Dutch News) Around 15 Dutch women who joined IS forces during the Syrian civil war escaped from Kurdish detention camps in the past year, ministers have admitted. Caretaker foreign affairs minister Sigrid Kaag and defence minister Ank Bijleveld told parliament that around […]
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(CBC) The mother of a Canadian woman held in a detention camp for family members of ISIS militants in northeast Syria for four years wants to know why her daughter remains there, after another Canadian woman was released with the help of […]
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(CBC) Court documents unsealed last week reveal that the RCMP intends to charge a Canadian ISIS foreign fighter with a string of terrorism offences. Since his capture by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in January 2019, Mohammed Khalifa, a self-confessed ISIS fighter from Toronto, has been […]
(CBC) A Canadian woman being held in an ISIS detention camp in northeast Syria has been released with the help of the former U.S. diplomat who helped get her four-year-old daughter out of the camp and to relatives in Canada earlier this […]
(AFP) Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday pressed US allies to bring back citizens arrested overseas for joining the Islamic State group, warning they could not be held indefinitely in Syria. Blinken made the appeal in Rome at a meeting of […]
(Breitbart) Female members of the Islamic State currently in prison camps in Syria, along with their children, could be all returning to Sweden this summer. Several days ago, a Swedish delegation comprised of officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Centre […]
(Global News) A former Toronto IT worker, known as the “voice of ISIS” because he narrated its gruesome execution videos, is being investigated by the RCMP for “serious terrorism offences,” a court document unsealed Tuesday reveals. The RCMP alleged in the top-secret […]
(Global News) An Ontario man admitted Monday he left Toronto with his wife almost two years ago to join the so-called Islamic State. At a court appearance in Brampton, Ont., Ikar Mao, 23, pleaded guilty to leaving Canada to participate in the […]
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(Dutch News) The Netherlands should … bring back a further eight Dutch women and their children from Syria, or they will escape trial on terrorism charges, their lawyer André Seebregts has told Trouw. This weekend, the Netherlands brought back one woman and […]
(NL Times) Ilham B. was picked up in Syria on Friday by a Dutch delegation who will transfer her to the Netherlands. B. went to Syria in 2013 when she was 19-years-old to join the terrorist organization ISIS. She was brought back […]
(AP) The Kurdish-led administration in Syria’s northeast handed over on Saturday to the Netherlands a Dutch woman, her two young sons, and a Dutch girl, who lived in a camp for families of alleged Islamic State militants. A delegation from the Netherlands […]
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(Algemeiner) Antisemitic demonstrations targeting Israel have continued to be staged by Islamist groups in Germany, despite the May 21 ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza. In a sinister display last Friday that brought to mind demonstrations by neo-Nazi […]
(People) Six years ago, Hoda Muthana was a 20-year-old college student in Alabama who lied to her family about a trip and instead joined the Islamic State in Syria. When she arrived she was confined to a home for unwed women, with […]
(Al-Jazeera) Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden to repatriate more than 160 Nordic nationals, most of whom are children, from northeast Syria. As many as 30 Danes, 22 Finns, 37 Norwegians, and 65 to 75 Swedes […]
(Swiss Info) Despite multiple pleas from international bodies, Switzerland refuses to repatriate adult detainees from Syrian camps, a policy that effectively leaves seven Swiss children stranded in the war-torn country. They were just four and nine years old, when in 2016 their […]
(AFP) A Norwegian court on Tuesday sentenced a woman who lived as a housewife in Syria to prison for being a member of the Islamic State group (IS), despite not actively fighting herself. The Oslo court sentenced the Norwegian-Pakistani woman to three […]
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(CBC) Hamilton native Kimberly Polman is among former ISIS brides featured in The Return: Life After ISIS by Alba Sotorra Clua and her Barcelona-based production company, and the filmmaker hopes the new documentary will give insight into the issues surrounding repatriation. Sotorra Clua said the documentary, currently […]
(AP) A Berlin court on Friday convicted a German woman of membership in the Islamic State group over her time spent in territory controlled by the extremist group in Syria. The court gave the 34-year-old, identified only as Zeynep G. in line […]
(Reuters) United Nations human rights experts urged Switzerland on Thursday to repatriate two Geneva sisters from a squalid camp in north-eastern Syria five years after the girls were allegedly abducted by their mother who joined Islamic State (IS). A senior Swiss foreign […]
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