This policy paper presents selected legal and political developments regarding the repatriation of European nationals from Northeast Syria in 2022. Of the more than 5,000 Europeans who had traveled to the former territory of the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq since 2012, several hundred men, women, and minors remain in Kurdish-administered camps and detention facilities in Northeast Syria together with tens of thousands of displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees.
Authors: Sofia Koller, Carlotta Sallach, Alexander Schiele
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
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On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers.
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