KAIROUAN (Tunisia), July 12 — Over WhatsApp from Tunisia, Taheyya has watched her grandchildren grow up in Syria, where her son joined a jihadist group. She hopes one day to be able to hold the three surviving siblings in her arms, but for now they are stuck in a displacement camp in the war-torn...
Taheyya has been trying to repatriate her three-year-old granddaughter and two grandsons, aged five and six Caroline Nelly. — AFP pic
Like others AFP spoke to, she preferred not to provide her surname for fear of reprisals against the children. Tunisians have constituted one of the largest groups of foreign jihadists in Syria, Iraq and Libya since 2011, with almost 3,000 departures, according to the Tunisian authorities. “He had asked me to take care of his children,” his younger brother said, adding that he himself had travelled to Turkey twice but had failed to obtain their return.
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