The federal government says today it is bringing home four Canadian women and 10 children from prison camps in northeastern Syria.
The Canadians are among the many foreign nationals in Syrian camps run by Kurdish forces that reclaimed the war-torn region from the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.Lawyer Lawrence Greenspon reached an agreement with the federal government in January to repatriate six Canadian women and 13 children who had been part of a court action.
Greenspon says today that two mothers and three children were not at a designated meeting point and missed the flight. He says he expects Global Affairs Canada will try to locate the five individuals and return them to Canada as well.
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