The Reuters team sat down in the dimly lit room in the camp in Ain Issa, norther...
AIN ISSA, Syria - The Reuters team sat down in the dimly lit room in the camp in Ain Issa, northern Syria, and waited for the two Belgian sisters-in-law to arrive.
Now Tatiana Wielandt and Bouchra Abouallal had agreed to speak to us face to face in the camp, a fenced-in expanse of tarpaulin tents close to the Turkish border under the control of their captors, the U.S.-backed SDF. Our team in Syria - correspondent Ellen Francis and video journalist Issam Abdallah - began by trying to make sure the women wanted to be there, watching for any signs that they were under mental or physical strain or under the sway of the guards.
Abouallal and Wielandt said they had renounced Islamic State and were prepared to let their children go home without them if the Belgian government continued to block their return.
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