Paris, France: France has repatriated 40 children and 15 women from camps in Syria holding family members of suspected Islamic State jihadists, the foreign ministry said on Thursday (Friday in Manila).

It marked the largest such repatriation in three months and came a week after a European rights court condemned France over its refusal to bring back two women detained in Syria.

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