WASHINGTON

The US repatriated an unaccompanied American minor last week from a displaced persons camp in northeast Syria, the State Department announced Tuesday.

It also urged other countries to repatriate their nationals in similar conditions.

The agency said the child had known "nothing of life outside of the camps" and praised interagency cooperation that made the operation possible.

"Our interagency efforts have given this child, who has known nothing of life outside of the camps, a future free from the influence and dangers of ISIS terrorism," it said in a statement.

The US expressed concern about the situation of approximately 30,000 individuals from more than 70 countries, many of them children under 12, who remain in two displaced persons camps in the region, where the YPG/PKK-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are accommodating families of Daesh/ISIS terrorists.

The al-Hol and al-Roj camps for displaced people in Al-Hasakah province accommodate families of Daesh/ISIS members who fled eastern Deir ez-Zor province due to fighting. The UN and nongovernmental organizations have voiced concerns about the humanitarian conditions in the two camps.

"The only durable solution to the humanitarian and security crisis in these displaced persons camps in northeast Syria is for countries of origin to repatriate, rehabilitate, reintegrate, and where appropriate, ensure accountability for their nationals. The same goes for former ISIS fighters held in detention centers in northeast Syria," said the State Department in a statement.

"As we do with our own nationals, every country must take responsibility for its nationals in northeast Syria and not look to others to solve the problem for them. They should also share in the burden incurred in caring for and repatriating their nationals," it added.