Iraq repatriates over 770 people from Syria camp

BAGHDAD: Nearly 200 families have been repatriated to Iraq from Syria´s Al-Hol camp, home to about 50,000 people including family members of suspected jihadists, an Iraqi official said on Sunday.

An estimated 10,000 foreigners from about 60 nationalities, including relatives of suspected Islamic State (IS) group militants, are held in the squalid and overcrowded camp in Kurdish-controlled northeast Syria which also houses refugees.

The senior Iraqi security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said “192 families, or 776 people” had returned to Iraq in the latest repatriation effort.