AKIPRESS.COM - The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said in a statement that it handed over IS fighters and civilians from Kazakhstan to their country: five fighters, 11 women and 30 children.
The SDF said they were repatriated on Saturday adding that it came after discussions with security authorities in Kazakhstan, according to media reports.
The SDF, that is a main force fighting extremists in Syria, has apprehended more than 700 non-Syrian IS fighters in addition to their families over the past years.
The group is now trying to remove extremists from the last area the control in eastern Syria near the border with Iraq.