[AnNahar] Some 800 Syrian women and kiddies started leaving the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp in northeast Syria on Monday, en route to their hometowns in the nearby province of Raqa, an AFP correspondent said.
At least 17 buses were seen leaving the area in the first such transfer from the crowded camp which is home to nearly 74,000 people, including relatives of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group jihadists, he added.
But "not all of those being released are relatives of IS fighters," Mehbach said of the group set to leave on Monday.
Some sought shelter at the camp to escape tough humanitarian conditions in areas levelled by months of fighting, he said.
Monday’s group consists of residents from the northeastern city of Raqa ‐ once IS’s de facto capital in Syria ‐ as well as the town of Tabqa, 70 kilometres (43 miles) west, according to Mehbach.
Those among them with suspected links to IS will be kept under surveillance by local Arab tribes, who have given guarantees, he said.
"It is the (Kurdish) administration’s duty to its people to play a role in the rehabilitation of these women and kiddies, and their reintegration into society," he added. 
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