Feb 5, 2018

Two Canadian citizens who were being held by a jihadist-dominated alliance in northwestern Syria were released on Monday to Turkish authorities, the pair said.

Jolly Bimbachi and Sean Moore were held for several weeks by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an alliance dominated by a former Al-Qaeda affiliate.

They had crossed into Syria in December 2017 from L

ebanon, where Bimbachi was fighting a custody battle for her two sons, she told AFP.

"Things were going a long way, so I decided to take an illegal route and bring my kids through Syria into Turkey, and hopefully the Canadian embassy in Turkey will help us out," Bimbachi said.