Bahrain Ambassador sees greater opportunities in the Economic Agreement with Japan

Bahrain Ambassador sees greater opportunities in the Economic Agreement with Japan

LONDON: The US government is attempting to extract a family of its citizens from a detention camp in Syria holding former members of Daesh, including children subjected to “violent” separation from their mother.

The family of 10, consisting of Brandy Salman and her nine children, are being held by the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces in the north of the country. Salman, 49, was taken with the children, currently aged between 6-25 years, to Syria by her Turkish husband in 2016 to join Daesh. He is believed to be dead.

The family was detained in Baghuz, Syria in 2019, and one of the male children, aged 17 at the time, was immediately separated from the rest of the family.

Salman’s sister, Rebecca Jean Harris, said that she had been contacted by FBI agents in 2019 seeking information on the family, after which Salman severed communications with her. Her father, Stephen R. Caravalho, told The New York Times that contact with Salman had been infrequent since she was taken into custody, and that the extended family had not seen her since 2006.

The US has so far repatriated 40 of its citizens from detention camps in northern Syria since 2016, including 25 children. A number of