US repatriates 11 citizens from camps for relatives of ISIS militants in Syria [Video]

• The U.S. has repatriated 11 citizens from Syrian camps housing ISIS militants’ families.
• The U.S. also facilitated the repatriation of 11 others, including eight children, to Canada, the Netherlands and Finland.
• The camps are managed by local authorities affiliated with the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.

The United States has repatriated 11 of its citizens from sprawling camps in northeastern Syria that house tens of thousands of family members of suspected Islamic State militants, the U.S. State Department said Tuesday.

The repatriation was the largest Washington has carried out from the camps to date, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. Five of the 11 citizens brought back were children, and one non-U.S. citizen child — the 9-year-old sibling of one of the other children — was also brought with them.

As part of the same operation, the U.S. facilitated the repatriation of 11 other camp residents, eight of them children, …