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Children of British ISIS members stranded in Syria will not be allowed to return to the UK, the government has reportedly decided. At least 30 British children are currently being held with their mothers in camps in northern Syria, after being detained as they fled the crumbling ISIS caliphate. The government has been under pressure to bring them home from the dangerous and overcrowded camps, both from local Syrian authorities and from the Trump administration. [ 368 more words ]
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Children of British ISIS members will not be allowed to return to UK

By Emma R. 15 August 2019

Children of British ISIS members stranded in Syria will not be allowed to return to the UK, the government has reportedly decided.

At least 30 British children are currently being held with their mothers in camps in northern Syria, after being detained as they fled the crumbling ISIS caliphate.

The government has been under pressure to bring them home from the dangerous and overcrowded camps, both from local Syrian authorities and from the Trump administration.

Earlier this year the infant son of Shamima Begum, the teenager who fled her home in Bethnal Green to join ISIS, died weeks after arriving at one of the facilities.

The former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt had said following the death that the government was working with the then international development secretary, Penny Mordaunt, on whether the children could be safely returned.

But Sajid Javid, the former home secretary, concluded after a review that it would be too dangerous to send officials to retrieve the children from Syria – despite the camps being regularly visited by British aid workers and journalists.

Some 70,000 women and children who fled the ISIS caliphate in its last months are being held in camps by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a mostly Kurdish militia that defeated the terror group with US and UK backing.

Security services in the UK and around the world are concerned that citizens detained in Syria who still hold extremist views will eventually find their way back home.

The British government believes that women can pose as significant a risk to national security as returning male fighters.

The decision to leave British children in a war zone was one Mr Javid made just before he left the Home Office to become chancellor.

Mr Javid was also concerned that bringing the children home would provide the parents with a legal argument to return to the UK.

Kurdish authorities in charge of the camps said the decision was a “big mistake” that risks leaving children vulnerable to terrorist recruitment.

The US-led coalition formed to defeat ISIS has warned that a new generation of jihadis is being created in camps holding the families of ISIS fighters.

Major General Alexus Grynkewich, deputy commander of the international coalition, described the potential for radicalization in the camps as “the biggest long-term strategic risk” in the fight against the jihadi group outside of ongoing military operations.

Abdulkarim Omar, foreign affairs chief for the autonomous administration that controls the camps said, “If these children are not returned to their country, rehabilitated and reintegrated into their communities, they will all become future terrorists… that will pose a threat to us and to the entire international community”.

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Leave them ALL there. And the USA does not want them!

No more refugees coming here from anywhere...we want ZERO!

Trump promised to put them in Safe Zone on their soil.

They have a LOT of land. Send them back, put them to work building their own villages, businesses, and a new government. Let the Saudi's and UAE foot the bill for it.