PARIS, June 10 (Xinhua) -- France has brought home more French orphans from families that had fought with the Islamic State's (IS) insurgents in Syria, local media reported on Monday.
Syrian Kurdish forces had handed over twelve children to France. All minors, the orphans lived in camps in the Syrian northeastern zones, where tens of thousands of civilians have fled the offensive to clear the IS's last bastion, news channel BFMTV reported.
The returnees were expected to reach the French soil later in the day where they will receive medical and psychological treatment before being handed over to the judicial authorities to decide whether their families, notably grandparents, are able to look after them, it added.
On March 15, France received five kids of less than 5 years from camps in northeastern Syria, where according to official data, 450 French nationals are currently in prison or being held in refugee camps.
France has previously expressed a preference for their citizens who fought with the Islamic State and held in Iraq and Syria to be prosecuted there on fears of growing militancy at home.
