![TOPSHOT - Sara al-Abdullah, a volunteer caring for 24 orphaned children reportedly linked with foreign fighters of the Islamic State (IS) group, holds two of them at a camp in the northern Syrian village of Ain Issa, on September 26, 2019. The Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria have repeatedly called for their foreign detainees to be repatriated, but this has largely been met with resistance, except in the rare case of dozens of orphans. / AFP / Delil SOULEIMAN](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/5I5HVXAV36PL5PY5KCJ4WQNLPU.jpg?smart=true&auth=45d81d46e8d95b56c4648fb606c5b923ec449f0b84dc4114452d7ee68881c9a4&width=400&height=225)
A volunteer at the camp in Ain Issa looking after orphaned children reportedly linked with foreign ISIS fighters in September. AFP
A volunteer at the camp in Ain Issa looking after orphaned children reportedly linked with foreign ISIS fighters in September. AFP
Britain working with international agencies for repatriation of ISIS children
UK government sources reveal they are working with agencies in Syria to bring back children born to ISIS members
Callum Paton
21 October, 2019