Moroccan ISIS Fighters in Syria Plea for Repatriation Amid Kurdish Prison Trials

It is the daily Akhbar Al Yaoume that revealed letters written by some of these detainees, in which they ask to return to the country to be saved from the difficult conditions of the Kurdish prisons.

These include, among others, letters received by the family of the former 33-year-old fighter, Youssef Benhayyan, from Fez. Detained in northern Syria, according to the newspaper, he managed to send these letters through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

"I am in northern Syria. How are you and how are you doing? How are my mother and father and my children? Send me photos of my children," reads a letter in which the Moroccan fighter, imprisoned for more than two years, begs his family to keep in touch with him through the Syrian Red Cross until his release and return to Morocco.

For her part, Benhayyan’s mother has reiterated her call on the Moroccan Embassy to do what is necessary until his release and repatriation to the country, adds the same source, which notes that the Kurdish forces of Syria, supported by the United States and tasked with fighting the last pocket of the Islamic State in the Euphrates Valley, have captured foreign fighters, including Moroccans.

The Turkish authorities have, as part of the offensive against the Kurds, carried out attacks on the "Al Haoul" and "Raouj" camps, where the families of Moroccan fighters live. The Moroccan authorities have still not managed to repatriate these Moroccans from northern Syria.