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Tunisian families battle to repatriate children of jihadists

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By  AFP

What you need to know:

  • Taheyya hopes one day to be able to hold the three surviving siblings in her arms.
  • But for now they are stuck in a displacement camp in the war-torn country.
  • Their father left for Syria in 2012, where he joined the Islamic State group and was killed.
  • Officials at the Tunisian foreign ministry said that "the will exists" for repatriations.

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Over WhatsApp from Tunisia, Taheyya has watched her grandchildren grow up in Syria, where her son joined a jihadist group.

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