Officials say that a camp in northeastern Syria that had housed families of suspected members of the Islamic State group is now largely empty after hundreds of women and children were repatriated to their countries or transferred to other facilities in recent weeks. The repatriation is part of Syrian government efforts to have suspected IS militants and their family members — held in various camps since the extremist group’s was defeated in Syria in 2019 — returned to their countries of origin. Gonzalo Vargas Llosa, the U.N. refugee agency’s representative in Syria, said on Friday that his agency had assisted in the return of 191 Iraqi citizens from Syria’s al-Hol camp to Iraq the previous day.
