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Twelve orphaned children of French jihadists were flown home Monday from camps in Syria, along with two Dutch orphans who were handed over to the Netherlands, the French foreign ministry said.
The latest repatriations of foreigners from northeast Syria involved a group of children that were "isolated and particularly vulnerable", the French ministry said, adding that some of the children were sick and malnourished.
The orphans, the oldest of whom is aged 10 according to Syrian Kurdish officials, had been held in two camps housing tens of thousands of people who fled recent fighting against the Islamic State ISIS group.
They were handed over to French and Dutch officials by Syrian Kurdish authorities, said Abdelkarim Omar, a senior Kurdish official.
The transfer, which took place Sunday in the town of Ain Issa, near Syria's border with Turkey, marks the latest step in efforts to resolve the problem posed by the huge numbers of foreign jihadists and their families stranded in Syrian camps.
Last week, two American women and six children from suspected jihadist families were repatriated.
Source: Daily Mail Online.