Kyrgyzstan announced on Wednesday the return of 100 women and children of ISIS terrorists from detention camps in Syria, in the third operation of its kind carried out by this country.

The Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry said in a statement today, Thursday, that 31 women and 64 children who are Kyrgyz nationals were transferred from Syria, without specifying the number of its citizens who are still in these camps in northeastern Syria.

The Ministry added that Kyrgyzstan is "grateful to the United States for its full assistance and logistical support" in this operation, and also thanked UNICEF and the Red Cross.

This is the third repatriation of Kyrgyz nationals from Syria or Iraq, after two operations in March 2021 (79 children) and in February 2023 (59 women and children).

Kyrgyz media reported that, as part of the latest mission, a delegation from the country transported a humanitarian aid shipment of medicines needed by the residents of northeastern Syria.

Especially in the years 2013-2015, thousands of people from the former Soviet Central Asian Republics - Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan - joined various armed organizations in Syria and Iraq, including ISIS.

Since the fall of ISIS in 2019, the issue of returning the families of "terrorists" to their homeland has become sensitive in many countries, such as France, which decided, according to a diplomatic source, to stop mass repatriation operations after transferring 169 children and 57 women./End

Source: National Iraqi News Agency