UK to receive repatriated orphans from Syria

A number of orphaned British children caught up in war in Syria are to be brought home to the UK.

Foreign secretary Dominic Raab said they will be the first UK citizens to be repatriated from the area of North Eastern Syria formerly controlled by Islamic State is group.

Raab said the children should never have been subjected to the horrors of war.

Those who are returning are expected to arrive UK in the coming days.