MPs call for British child and ill mother to be returned to UK from Syrian camp

Mother is unlikely to survive without medical intervention, leaving her young son orphaned, say doctors

MPs and a human rights group have called on the UK government to repatriate a young British boy and his gravely ill mother from a detention camp in Syria, after doctors said she was at risk of dying and leaving the child orphaned.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said it was reviewing the case of Zaid* and his mother, Maryam* - who was injured in an explosion in Syria in 2019 and left with shrapnel in her head - as a matter of priority".