US repatriates 11 American nationals, one other from Syria camps

The United States has repatriated 11 American nationals and one other from north-east Syria, in the single largest recovery of citizens from the Kurdish-run camps by the US government, to date. In a statement by US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken on Tuesday, he announced the “complex repatriation and resettlement” of 11 American citizens, five of whom were minors, as well as the “9-year-old non-U.S.-citizen sibling of one of the U.S. citizen minors”. In what he referred to as “the largest single repatriation of U.S. citizens from northeast Syria to date”, the government did not reveal the identities of the 12 individuals but, according to the New York Times, two unnamed officials told it that 10 of them belonged to […]