Belgium takes back six IS children
Six Belgian children of Islamic State members were brought back to Belgium on Friday from camps in Syria where US-backed militia are holding thousands of militants and their family members.
The children, ranging in age from six to 18, were all left parentless in Syria, making their repatriation less complicated than that of dozens of other Belgian children of IS members held in Syria`s northern Kurdish region. "The 6 children from #Syria have just arrived in our country," Belgium's Foreign Minister Didier Reynders Tweeted late on Friday. "The children are now being monitored and supervised by the competent local state attorneys & youth support services."
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) controls the quarter of Syria east of the Euphrates river after driving back Islamic State in a series of advances from 2015 that culminated in March with the group`s defeat at its last territorial enclave in Baghouz, near the Iraqi border.
