4 German children born to IS to return home from Syria
An official in the Syrian Kurdish-led administration
in the country’s northeast says four German children, including an ill toddler,
fathered by Islamic State militants have been handed over to Germany.
Abdulkarim Omar, a foreign affairs official in the
U.S-backed Kurdish-led administration, said the handover Monday occurred at a
Syrian border crossing with Iraq in the presence of a German foreign ministry
official. Omar said two of the children are orphans, while a third, who is six
months old, is ill and her mother gave permission for her handover to German
authorities.
Germany is the latest European country to repatriate
children born to IS militants. Over 70,000 children and women, many of them
foreigners, who came out of the last IS-controlled territories in Syria are
currently languishing in Syrian camps.
