France taken to EU rights court over stranded jihadist children

The grandparents of a three-year-old boy and his sister aged four, who were wounded and captured with their French mother after the fall of the Islamic State stronghold of Baghouz and who are currently stranded in a detention camp in north-east Syria, have begun legal action against the French state before the European Court of Human Rights for refusing to repatriate the three. 

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The grandparents of two children, stranded in a refugee camp in Syrian Kurdistan along with their jihadist mother, want Paris condemned for its refusal to allow the three to return to France, reports Radio France Internationale.