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(ISIS) were repatriated on Saturday from Kurdish-controlled camps in northeastern Syria (Rojava).
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Five women and 14 children linked to ISIS were handed over back to the Albanian government on Saturday, the agency reported.
This is the second repatriation by the Albanian government. In October 2020, the country repatriated a woman and four children.
The radicalization of thousands of children in Rojava camps has been a constant cause of concern. "It will be a military problem in a few years if we don’t fix the non-military aspects of it now," commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM) General Kenneth McKenzie said late April.
Kosovo repatriated a number of its ISIS-affiliated nationals from Rojava camps, the Ministry of Interior announced earlier this month. Finland also repatriated about 30 of its nationals in July.
Al-Hol and Roj camps together hold more than 60,000 people.
According to Finland, there are still nearly 900 European citizens — 600 children and 300 women — in Rojava’s camps, including several Finns.
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Rama said that Albania's Interior Ministry and other intelligence institutions are closely cooperating with Lebanese authorities and countries on the repatriation. He did not specify if the women's husbands were alive or dead or if any of the women will face terrorism charges upon their return.
"Up to the last Albanian, we shall do our utmost to turn them back to their homeland," he said.
This is the third effort repatriating Albanians from the fighting territories in Syria. In October last year, five Albanians were repatriated and an Albanian child was repatriated a year earlier.
A few hundred Albanian men joined the Islamic State and other groups fighting in Syria and Iraq in the early 2010s. Many were killed, and their wives and children are stuck in Syrian camps.
Relatives in Albania say about 30 other Albanian children and women are in the Syrian camps. But Rama doubted that could be the exact number, "because the information is updated daily."
Cabinet is expected to appoint a new director general to the Surete Generale and State Security agencies on Wednesday. Political sources said the top post at Surete Generale will go to Brigadier