The complex deal also brought home two sons of a Minnesota man who fought for ISIS
A woman carries a child as she walks through the al-Hol refugee camp in northeastern Syria in Oct. 2023.
Beyond being a humanitarian crisis, the presence of so many minors living among current and former ISIS members poses a global security threat. The camps, where children continue to be born, have been called terrorist breeding grounds, so the U.S. is pushing other countries to help shrink the camps' numbers by bringing their citizens home.
Some returnees could face prosecution and imprisonment. In fact, of the 40 other Americans returned from Syrian camps in recent years, at least 14 have been prosecuted due to their involvement with ISIS. Salman was born in western Massachusetts and public records show that she has also lived in Michigan, New Hampshire and New York City. Her father, Stephen R. Caravalho, lives in Hot Springs, Ark., and her sister, Rebecca Jean Harris, lives in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
The 7-year-old is Al-Madioum's biological son by an ISIS widow he married, making the child a U.S. citizen. The 9-year-old is the woman's son by a previous relationship, Al-Madioum's stepson. The woman later died.
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