Germany takes back four Islamic State children from Syria
An unidentified child of a militant of Islamic State (IS) plays with an AK-47
Germanyhas for the first time allowedchildrenwhose parents were suspected members of the IslamicStateto return toGermanyfromnorthernSyria.
Foreign minister Heiko Maas said it will push for more suchchildrento come to the country.
Like other western countries,Germanyfaces a tricky decision on how to deal with citizens who went to the Middle East to join groups likeIslamicState, which was driven out of its last territorial enclave in March by US-backed forces.
Three of thefourrepatriated Germanchildrenare orphans, according to German media, but no further details were available.
"We will push for morechildrento leaveSyria," Maas said on Monday. "These are mostly youngchildren... they cannot be made responsible for the actions of their parents and we want to do something to help," he added.
Thousands ofIslamicStatemembers, including foreigners, women andchildren, are being held by Kurdish-led authorities in northernSyria.
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German intelligence officials say more than 1,000 Germans went to fight inSyriaand Iraq whereIslamicStateonce controlled swathes of territory in a self-declared caliphate.
Around a third have returned toGermany, another third are believed to have died and the rest are believed to be still in Iraq andSyria.
Other western countries including Britain and France are facing decisions on how to handle their citizens who went to join the IslamicState. The British government was heavily criticized after it decided to strip a 19-year-old woman of her citizenship in February, leaving her in a refugee camp inSyriawhere her baby died.