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INSANE: Spain to bring back spanish families from is camps in syria | Rare Historical Photos

FILE PHOTO: A general view of al-Hol displacement camp in Hasaka governorate, Syria April 2, 2019. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho/File Photo

Spain has decided to bring back several Spanish wives, widows and children of Islamic State fighters from detention camps in northeastern Syria, a government source said on Monday, confirming a report in El Pais newspaper.

Thousands of foreigners including women and children had gone to Syria to live in Islamic State's so-called caliphate until 2019, when U.S.-backed Kurdish forces took the last pocket of Syrian territory from the jihadists.

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