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Nearly 160 Iraqi families have been repatriated from Syria’s Al-Hol camp, home to tens of thousands of people including family members of suspected militants, an Iraqi government spokesman said Sunday. More than 43,000 Syrians, Iraqis, and foreigners from at least 45 countries are held in the squalid and overcrowded camp in Kurdish-controlled northeast Syria. Al-Hol houses relatives of suspected Islamic State (IS) group militants alongside refugees. “157 families, or 625 people” had returned to Iraq from Al-Hol on Saturday in the latest repatriation effort, Ali Abbas, spokesman for Iraq’s migr…

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