Rabat is intending to rely on «intermediaries» to negotiate the repatriation of around 200 Moroccan housewives and their children, held in Syria.
Moroccan women in Syria have been urging the authorities to be repatriated. Sources claim that the procedure was refused by the Kingdom, fearing that these mothers and their children could spread radical Islamist ideology.
A Moroccan human rights group has accused a US-backed Kurdish armed group, operating in Syria, of sending Moroccan women married to ISIS fighters to areas controlled by the terrorist organization.
Despite being stuck in the Yemen war against the Houthi rebels, Saudi Arabia is planning to send ground troops to Syria to fight against ISIS and Morocco is highly impacted by this new decision.