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The United States repatriated 11 US citizens, including five minors, from northeastern Syria, the State Department said on Tuesday, in the largest single return of Americans from the war zone. The United States also helped repatriate six Canadians, four Dutch citizens, and a child from Finland back to those countries, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement. A 9-year-old non-US citizen, who was a sibling of one of the American minors, was also resettled in the United States, he said. The Canadian foreign ministry said the six Canadians were children who would “receive …