A young British girl has been repatriated from a detention camp housing alleged Islamic State family members in northwest Syria, authorities in the region have told Sky News.

The girl, who is thought to be around nine years old, was found at the Al Hol camp in northeast Syria, which houses the wives and children of IS fighters and supporters of the terror group.

She was being raised by a woman who is not her biological mother and does not speak English, as she has spent most of her life in the camps.

It is understood the UK government asked the authorities in northeast Syria to find her in the camp and hand her over.

Khaled Ibrahim, a member of the foreign relations department of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), said the department had been in "constan

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