Norway repatriated two sisters as well as their children from northeastern Syria Roj camp, which hosts ISIS families.
Oslo announced on Tuesday that the Norwegian sisters of Somali origin were detained with their three children in a camp for militants’ families. They were released with their daughters to be repatriated to Norway where they will be brought to trial.
"The living conditions in the camps are extremely bad and dangerous. These Norwegian children have been living for a long time in these camps where no children should have to live", Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt said in a statement.
The semi-autonomous Kurdish administration in northeastern Syria said that "two women and three children from ISIS families" who were in the Roj camp were handed over to a Norwegian diplomat on Tuesday.
A statement said the children were aged six, seven, and eight.
The two sisters of Somali origin clandestinely left Norway for Syria in late 2013, aged 16 and 19, to join a popular uprising against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
The sisters, now aged 29 and 25, are mothers to three daughters born from marriage to ISIS militants, according to the Norwegian paper Verdens Gang.
"The two women themselves asked for assistance to return with their children (and) know they will be arrested on arrival in Norway," said Huitfeldt.
