US Repatriates 11 Citizens From Camps in Northeast Syria

The U.S. Department of State seal is seen on the podium-lectern area in the State Department briefing room in Washington in 2013. Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images

The United States repatriated 11 citizens from northeast Syria on Tuesday, May 7, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced.

Mr. Blinken said that among those 11 repatriated U.S. citizens were five minors. The operation also saw U.S. officials resettle within the United States the nine-year-old non-U.S. citizen sibling of one of the U.S. citizen minors repatriated on Tuesday.