Kosovo brought back 110 of its citizens from Syria on Saturday including jihadis...
PRISTINA - Kosovo brought back 110 of its citizens from Syria on Saturday including jihadists who had gone to fight in the country’s civil war and 74 children, the government said.
The population of Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008, is nominally 90 percent Muslim, but largely secular in outlook. Tahiri did not specify what role the United States had played but a plane with a U.S. flag on its tail was seen in the cargo area of Pristina airport as the operation was ongoing.
Authorities said among those who were returned were four fighters, 32 women and 74 children, including nine without a parent. The United States commended Kosovo for the return of its citizens and called other countries to do the same.
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