The US has called on foreign states to repatriate their nationals, accusing European nations of failing to do so. Getty The US has pressed France, Germany, and other European nations to take back captured IS fighters, but they did not want them and refused. By far the largest is at al-Hol, with 70,000 people, more than 90% of them women and children, of whom 11,000 are foreign nationals. Of these, about 800 are from European nations while the rest are from the Middle East, north Africa or Asia. Human Rights Watch has described government-facilitated repatriations of foreign nationals as "piecemeal."

Source: The North Africa Journal October 09, 2019 23:15 UTC