UK To Repatriate Orphans Left In Syria, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab Confirms

In a statement, Raab said: “These innocent, orphaned children should never have been subjected to the horrors of war.

“We have facilitated their return home because it was the right thing to do.

“Now they must be allowed the privacy and given the support to return to a normal life.”

In a previous Commons debate in October, former Brexit Secretary David Davis said vulnerable British children risked “turning into terrorists” if they were not brought home from Syria.

Davis told MPs that three of the estimated 60 British children thought to be in the region were orphans, adding that those who had not been orphaned “still deserve the United Kingdom’s protection”.

In a tweet, Dr Abdulkarim Omar, the de facto foreign minister of the self-styled Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, said: “Today, 21 November 2019, three British orphans from ISIS parents were handed over to a delegation representing the British Foreign Ministry, headed by Mr. Martin Longden, according to an official repatriation document signed by the Selfe Administration and the British Government.”